904 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

Every love story is a ghost story.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.