You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
David Foster WallaceRead
...loneliness is not a function of solitude.
Interpretation
Loneliness is about emotional experience rather than physical being alone.
David Foster Wallace's quote emphasizes that loneliness stems from our emotional state and perceptions, rather than our physical circumstances of being alone. It reflects the idea that one can feel lonely even in a crowd if there is a lack of meaningful connection, highlighting the complexity of human emotions and the distinction between solitude, which can be fulfilling, and loneliness, which can be isolating.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about mental health and the importance of social connections.
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel.
Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like youβve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and itβs like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) β this is the perpetual illusion of morality.
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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