Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes: Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
         

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.


Jonathan Safran Foer
Check all other quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Wed. 18 Dec. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Time-was-passing-like-a-hand-waving-757018>.





Check out


Other quotes of Jonathan Safran Foer


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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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




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

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.

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 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.





Other quotes you may like


Sometimes witchraft is when the heart is full of hate that it consumes your mind not appreciate good things that are done by other people.

Sometimes witchraft is when the heart is full of hate that it consumes your mind not appreciate good things that are done by other people.



Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.



Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.



I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.



Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.



A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.

A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.



When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.



You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint.

You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint.



I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.



A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.". Author of this quote is Jonathan Safran Foer. This quote is about time, hands, wanted, time passing, passing, train,.