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Top 500 Don DeLillo Quotes (2025 Update)
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Don DeLillo Quote: “It’s hard to be beautiful. You have an obligation to people. You almost become public property. You can lose yourself and get almost mentally disturbed on just the public nature of being beautiful. Don’t think I haven’t thought about it. You can get completely lost in that whole dumb mess. And anyway who’s to say what’s beautiful and what’s ugly?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn’t fix a dripping faucet – fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn’t sure I disagreed.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “What’s the point of living if we don’t die at the end of it?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That’s the nature of existence.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I am the false character that follows the name around.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn’t see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Freud is finished, Einstein’s next.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I don’t want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Isn’t death a blessing? Doesn’t it define the value of our lives, minute to minute, year to year?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”
Don DeLillo Quote: “When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I am very unmusical. I can’t carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Sometimes it takes an entire morning to outlive a dream, to outwake a dream.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can’t know and they can’t tell us.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “In the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The language of my books has shaped me as a man.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America...”
Don DeLillo Quote: “She watched him surrender his crisp gaze to a softening, a bright-eyed fear that seemed to tunnel out of childhood. It had the starkness of a last prayer. She worked to get at it. His face was drained and slack, coming into flatness, into black and white, cracked lips and flaring brows, age lines that hinge the chin, old bafflements and regrets.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “In the afternoon I drank Coke and wrote poetry.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Maybe this man experiences another kind of reality where he is here and there, before and after, and he moves from one to the other shatteringly, in a state of collapse, minus an identity, a language, a way to enjoy the savor of the honey-coated toast she watches him eat. She.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “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 Quote: “I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people’s sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The skies she retained in memory were dramas of cloud and sea storm, or the electric sheen before summer thunder in the city, always belonging to the energies of sheer weather, of what was out there, air masses, water vapor, westerlies.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “When you try to unravel something you’ve written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity. It seemed a worthwhile goal for prospective saints and flagellants. The new asceticism. All the visionary possibilities of the fast. To feed on the plants and animals of earth. To expand and wallow. I cherished his size, the formlessness of it, the sheer vulgar pleasure, his sense of being overwritten prose. Somehow it was the opposite of death.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “We listen to the old radio shows. Light flares and spreads across the blue-banded edge, sunrise, sunset, the urban grids in shadow. There is a sweetness in the tenor voice of the young man singing, a simple vigour that time and distance and random noise have enveloped in eloquence and yearning. Every sound, every lilt of strings has this veneer of age.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “The truth of the world is exhausting.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he’ll become.”
Don DeLillo Quote: “Isn’t death the boundary we need?”
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