Filthy Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

“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

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

— 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 it at…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“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