Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can't be played for a laugh.
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
Lvov is a city like New York City in America. New York City, in truth, was designed on the model of Lvov.
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?
I missed you even when I was with you. That's been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.
Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled, just as the dead can never be counted.
We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against ...
It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
And was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose.
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
When you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side.
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.
A Seeing Eye bitch is not only for blind people but for people who pine for the negative of loneliness.
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.