Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

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.

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it

How did her life live itself without her.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

With writing, we have second chances.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.