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Life Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

122 Life quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer reflects on moments that feel like the best days of a life, and on the ache of remembering what was lost. He talks about love that is shown in quiet sleep beside someone you care about. He also wonders how empathy and connection can give a life purpose.

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Life is scarier than death.

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“It takes life to live life”

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We spent our lives making livings.

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I spent my life learning to feel less.

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

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My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

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How did her life live itself without her.

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If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

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“Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.”

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I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

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“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.”

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“She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live”

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Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

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“But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.”

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“I hit the spacebar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.”

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

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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

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“If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the…

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“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation…

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I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life,…

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I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?…

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“well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so…

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I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of…

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“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.”

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And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with…

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“Don't you find that strange? I can't believe I never found it strange before. It's like your name, how you don't notice…

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“It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,…

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“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly…

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I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether…

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“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she…

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I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to…

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Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;…

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“Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be…

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“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to…

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“Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could…

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“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so…

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“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day…

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“i thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, i thought…

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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.…

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“I remember spending an afternoon with Mr. Richter in the Central Park Zoo, I went weighted down with food for the animals,…

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If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

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“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

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“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible…

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Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?…

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My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what…

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