Quote

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

Don DeLillo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don DeLillo
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Don Delillo
Donald Richard DeLillo
Trying
Match
Something
Waking
Life
Forces
World
Morning
Powerful
Known
Point
Force

More quotes by Don DeLillo

Image
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
Don DeLillo
Image
Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this
Don DeLillo
Image
Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
Don DeLillo
Image
America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.
Don DeLillo
Image
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
Don DeLillo
Image
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
Image
There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)
Don DeLillo
Image
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
Don DeLillo
Image
Pain is just another form of information.
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
Technology is lust removed from nature.
Don DeLillo
Image
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
Image
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
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
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes I don't.
Don DeLillo
Image
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
Don DeLillo
Image
The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
Don DeLillo
Image
You become a serious novelist by living long enough.
Don DeLillo
Image
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
Don DeLillo
Image
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo