David Foster Wallace Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Grieving, Skeletons

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship You, Choices, Atheism

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship You, Choices, Yahweh

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Spiritual, Ethical Principles

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship, Weak, Feels

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Graduation, Worship

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Stupid, Smart, Feelings

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". September 19, 2008.

• This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Men, Cosmos, Worship

• Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Grieving, Worship You, Body

• Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.

  David Foster Wallace

  Attachment, Giving, Care

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.83, Hachette UK

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