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David Foster Wallace Quotes about Choices

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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

David Foster Wallace
Worship You, Choices, Yahweh
"'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

David Foster Wallace
Worship You, Choices, Atheism
"'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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
Choices, Being Free, Hazards
"Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

David Foster Wallace
Real, Choices, Childhood
"The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.

What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?

David Foster Wallace
Choices, What If, Temples
David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.84, Hachette UK

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

David Foster Wallace
Commitment, Loss, Choices

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