David Foster Wallace Quotes

My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.