Don DeLillo Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

  Don DeLillo

  Life, Memories, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

• How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?

  Don DeLillo

  Morning, Real, Night

  Don DeLillo, Mark Osteen (1998). “White Noise: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

• Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Thinking, People

• If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

  Don DeLillo

  Understanding, Feelings, Needs

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

• Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

  Don DeLillo

  Feelings, Firsts, Knows

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.126, Penguin

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