It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, hear voices with…

David Foster Wallace
289 citations
It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, hear voices without worrying that something is wrong with you. I heard voices all the time as a small child. ✨ All That by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.
Time
24

More Author Quotes

This story [The Depressed Person] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writin … ▶
I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2004). The Broom of the System: A Novel, p.56, Penguin
That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine. ✨ The Pale King. Book by Dav … ▶
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend … ▶
It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inade … ▶

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, hear voices without worrying that something is wrong with you. I heard voices all the time as a small child. ✨ All That by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes