David Foster Wallace Quotes

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

I always have issues with trust.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

What loneliness is more lonely than mistrust.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

I have trust issues.

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?

Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!