David Foster Wallace’s novel ‘Infinite Jest’ was originally published in 1996.
It is noteworthy for its unique narrative structure, extensive footnotes, and discussion of issues such as addiction, alienation, and modern-day challenges.
Let’s explore some of the most popular quotes from Infinite Jest novel.
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Infinite Jest Quotes by David Foster Wallace
“Life’s endless war against the self you cannot live without.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“The man who knows his limitations, has none.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. … How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
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Quotes from Infinite Jest
“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“I don’t want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
Famous Infinite Jest Quotes
“She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Yes, I’m paranoid – but am I paranoid enough?” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It’s not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us – -these are just the hazards of being free.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
Best Infinite Jest Quotes by David Foster Wallace
“My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I’m so tired.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“I am not what you see and hear.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.” ~ David Foster Wallace (quote from Infinite Jest).
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