Quote

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Don DeLillo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Love
Wear
Stay
Trust
Leave
Moving
Wordless
Sometimes
Linger
Long
Shock
Something
Supposed

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
Don DeLillo
Image
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
Don DeLillo
Image
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
Don DeLillo
Image
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
Don DeLillo
Image
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.
Don DeLillo
Image
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLillo
Image
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
Don DeLillo
Image
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don DeLillo
Image
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
Don DeLillo
Image
I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
Don DeLillo
Image
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
Don DeLillo
Image
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
Don DeLillo
Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
Don DeLillo
Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
Don DeLillo
Image
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
Don DeLillo
Image
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
Don DeLillo
Image
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
Don DeLillo
Image
In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
Don DeLillo
Image
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
Don DeLillo