Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what an I say, I like to see people run… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
“Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I beg you, no matter what happens, no matter where you go in life or how many millions you make, no matter… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
