How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness isn't everything. ” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Jacob was right when, after Sam’s injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In the emptiness of evenings, serious and unequivocal, he would say: “How beautiful is forgetting! what relief it would be for the… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It… — 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
“but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I never thought of myself as quiet or much less silent... is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's painful to think,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“After a time, I had only a handful of words left... Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“she’d done enough residential architecture to know that the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed… — 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
