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Top 500 Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes (2025 Update)
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Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Stephen Hawking won’t come to Israel? I’m not one to punch a quadriplegic with glasses, but I’m sure he won’t mind if we ask for his voice back – you know, the one that was created by Israeli engineers.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Regarding US government recommendations that tend to encourage dairy consumption in the name of preventing osteoporosis, Nestle notes that in parts of the world where milk is not a staple of the diet, people often have less osteoporosis and fewer bone fractures than Americans do. The highest rates of osteoporosis are seen in countries where people consume the most dairy foods.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “When you’re a dad, there’s no one above you. If I don’t do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “To try to live.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The question, I’ve come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I wouldn’t want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Jewish-motherly.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Is this why you think you are chosen by God, because only you can understand the funnies that you make about yourself?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “If god exists, he is not to be believed in.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Why I’m Not Where You Are.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil – only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “When I got off the plane, after eleven hours of travel and forty years away, the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, “To mourn,” and then, “To mourn try to live,” he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, “Neither.” “For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?” “For as long as I can.” “Are we talking about a weekend or a year?” I didn’t write anything. The man said, “Next.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I am a mother, she thought – not an answer to the question being asked, and no more her ultimate ambition than happiness, but her ultimate identity.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, ‘God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them.” God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch – man created in the image of what? the animals? – the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other’s. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about “eating animals”, they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It’s a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I have witnessed Grandfather cry, and I implore myself to say that I desire to never witness him cry again. If this signifies that I must do things for him so that he will not cry, then I will do those things. If this signifies that I must not look when he cries, then I will not look.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Is God sad? He would have to exist to be sad, wouldn’t He? I know, she said, giving his shoulder a little slap. That’s why I was asking, so I might finally know if you believed! Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal to be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Hold on. Now you’re calling Sam a racist?” “I did not say that, Mr. Bloch.” “You did. You just did. Julia – ” “I don’t remember his exact words.” “I said, ‘Racism has no place here.’” “Racism is what racists express.” “Have you ever lied, Mr. Bloch?” Jacob reflexively searched his jacket pocket yet again for his phone. “I assume that, like everyone who has ever lived, you have told a lie. But that doesn’t make you a liar.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Parents don’t have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: “Are we there yet?” Adults: “How did we get here so quickly?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I am very simple to enchant.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Good people don’t make fewer mistakes, they’re just better at apologizing.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Blessings are just curses that other people envy.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Make us better than we are. Make us good.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “He was caught somewhere between his mother’s last kiss and the first kiss he would give his child, between the war that was and would be.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Her culinary prowess was one of our family’s primal stories, like the cunning of the grandfather I never met, or the single fight of my parents’ marriage. We clung to those stories and depended on them to define us. We were the family that chose its battles wisely, and used wit to get out of binds, and loved the food of our matriarch.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “At first I thought I’d walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and then I saw that it was her and she saw that it was me...”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why – Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? – and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood – which is a good shame – is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Should he one day share it and be asked how autobiographical it was, he would say, “It’s not my life, but it’s me.”
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