David Foster Wallace Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old David Foster Wallace quotes, David Foster Wallace sayings, and David Foster Wallace proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. David Foster Wallace
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. David Foster Wallace
The man who knows his limitations, has none. David Foster Wallace
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. David Foster Wallace
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. David Foster Wallace
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. David Foster Wallace
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth. David Foster Wallace
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. David Foster Wallace
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. David Foster Wallace
Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. David Foster Wallace
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive. David Foster Wallace
Nothing brings you together like a common enemy. David Foster Wallace
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. David Foster Wallace
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. David Foster Wallace
Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. David Foster Wallace