There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment! — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Her 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
“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
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
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything… — 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
