Quote

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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
Ends
Doe
Life
Measure
Meaning
Value
Modern
Values

More quotes by 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
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
Don DeLillo
Image
You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.
Don DeLillo
Image
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo
Image
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Don DeLillo
Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.
Don DeLillo
Image
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
Don DeLillo
Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
Don DeLillo
Image
People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
Don DeLillo
Image
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
Don DeLillo
Image
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Don DeLillo
Image
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
Don DeLillo
Image
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLillo
Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
Don DeLillo
Image
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
Don DeLillo
Image
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
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
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore
Don DeLillo
Image
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
Don DeLillo
Image
Technology and violence are interdependent.
Don DeLillo