Thinking Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think after you live it's like before you lived.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer