David Foster Wallace Quotes

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can't explain.

Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Love hurts whether its right ow wrong

Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.