David Foster Wallace Quotes

It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Living, it's awful for me.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Everybody has unhappiness.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

Men die and they are not happy.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And it sounds cynical because you guys are young and you're full with life. I want you to understand - this is it. You have nothing to look forward to because you're peaking. If you're not having fun now, kill yourself. I don't mean that in a bad way, just - it's not worth it to go forward.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.