David Foster Wallace Worship Quotations

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

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.

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

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles--is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.