David > David's Quotes

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.”
― Woody Allen

“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
― Charles Bukowski

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
― John Steinbeck

“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...”
― John Keats

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
― James Joyce

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
― Dylan Thomas

“And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you're seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
― Graham Greene

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway