David Foster Wallace Inspirational Quotations

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

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

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

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

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, 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.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.