Truth Quote by David Foster Wallace — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

“I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”

“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.”

“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.”

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”

“LET'S FACE IT...”

“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”

“Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.”

“See yourself as you really are.”

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”

“A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.”