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Top 500 Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes (2024 Update)
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Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “If we don’t demonstrate solidarity through small collective sacrifices, we will not win the war, and if we do not win the war, we will lose the childhood home of every human who has ever lived.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I’m not better than anyone, and I’m not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what’s right. I’m trying to convince them to live by their own.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can’t stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “She saw through the shell of me into the center of me.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I regret how much I believed in the future.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Oh, I’d say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We talked for hours, but we just kept repeating those same things over and over and over.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “As I’ve grown older, I’ve grown more convinced there’s nothing that shouldn’t be talked about. If we think we’re protecting each other, we’re not.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Mom said, “His spirit is there,” and that made me really angry. I told her, “Dad didn’t have a spirit! He had cells!” “His memory is there.” “His memory is here,” I said, pointing at my head. “Dad had a spirit,” she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation. I told her, “He had cells, and now they’re on rooftops, and in the river, and in the lungs of millions of people around New York, who breathe him every time they speak!”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “And the joys I’ve felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Their relationship was defined not by what they could share, but what they couldn’t. Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Profound, bottomless self-doubt – it has no value – what’s the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Jacob was right when, after Sam’s injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. society didn’t ban child labor because it’s impossible to imagine children working in a good environment, but because when you give that much power to businesses over powerless individuals, it’s corrupting. When we walk around thinking we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it’s corrupting.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I didn’t intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There’s this great Auden quote: “I look at what I write so I can see what I think.””
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Be the instrument playing the sound of your life’s passing.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “If it had and answer, it wouldn’t really be love, would it?”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary – hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “Sadness of love without release.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn’t mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “We live in a world in which it’s conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal.”
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote: “I said, ‘I need to know how he died.’ He flipped back and pointed at, ‘Why?’ So I can stop inventing how he died. I’m always inventing.”
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