David Foster Wallace Quotes

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

topic:truth freedom

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

topic:freedom

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

topic:reality

“The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

topic:pain

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

topic:boredom

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

topic:sun hell

“everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

topic:difference

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