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

“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”

“The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.”

“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”

“If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.”

“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”