--- title: "12 Imagine Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer" description: "12 Imagine quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Plus more from Jonathan Safran Foer and more Imagine sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdb/jonathan-safran-foer-136_imagination_it-is-not-a-thing-that-you-can-imagine-i_1312106.png" --- > [It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-is-not-a-thing-that-you-can-imagine-it-only-is-after-that-there/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdb/jonathan-safran-foer-136_imagination_it-is-not-a-thing-that-you-can-imagine-i_1312106.png) > [I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-imagine-a-line-a-white-line-painted-on-the-sand-and-on-the-ocean/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3c/jonathan-safran-foer-136_distance_i-imagine-a-line-a-white-line-painted-on_2921823.png) > [We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/we-could-imagine-all-sorts-of-universes-unlike-this-one-but-this-is/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/jonathan-safran-foer-136_happened_we-could-imagine-all-sorts-of-universes_1586090.png) > [Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/imagine-being-served-a-plate-of-sushi-but-this-plate-also-holds-all/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_imagine-being-served-a-plate-of-sushi-bu_1674274.png) > [Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him-one-day-as-they-leaned/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_girl_do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him_39508.jpg) > [Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/well-what-i-don-t-get-is-why-do-we-exist-i-don-t-mean-how-but-why-i/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/jonathan-safran-foer-136_exist_well-what-i-don-t-get-is-why-do-we-exist_2380058.png) > [I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-often-think-about-how-my-sons-will-come-to-know-about-september/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/jonathan-safran-foer-136_deliberate_i-often-think-about-how-my-sons-will-com_64819.jpg) > [Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/well-let-me-leave-it-at-this-if-god-does-exist-he-would-have-a-great/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/jonathan-safran-foer-136_answers_well-let-me-leave-it-at-this-if-god-does_1537774.jpg) > [How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/how-would-you-judge-an-artist-who-mutilated-animals-in-a-gallery/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/704/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_how-would-you-judge-an-artist-who-mutila_2946052.png) > [Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/find-a-printer-paper-and-imagine-a-full-grown-bird-shaped-something/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/jonathan-safran-foer-136_bird_find-a-printer-paper-and-imagine-a-full_1699314.png) > [This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/this-isn-t-animal-experimentation-where-you-an-imagine-some/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7d/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_this-isn-t-animal-experimentation-where_450529.jpg) > [But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/but-when-at-the-end-of-my-sophomore-year-i-became-a-philosophy-major/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47a/jonathan-safran-foer-136_annoying_but-when-at-the-end-of-my-sophomore-year_1338333.jpg) ## Other authors on Imagine ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/this-brings-me-back-to-the-image-of-kafka-standing-before-a-fish-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-try-not-to-remember-the-life-that-i-didn-t-want-to-lose-but-lost/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-have-an-aristocratic-smile-and-like-to-punch-people/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/he-removed-several-pages-of-death-certificates-which-were-picked-up/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-would-have-done-anything-for-him-maybe-that-was-my-sickness-we-made/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/one-day-i-wandered-away-from-her-and-hid-i-liked-the-way-it-felt-to/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-nothing-matters-there-s-nothing-to-save/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-was-one-of-the-best-days-of-my-life-a-day-during-which-i-lived-my/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-appearance-was-misleading-human-dreams-rubbish-heaps-abundant-yet/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-entirety-of-human-society-and-moral-progress-represents-an/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/food-is-not-so-much-a-symbol-of-freedom-as-the-first-requirement-of/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/rationally-factory-farming-is-so-obviously-wrong-in-so-many-ways-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/just-because-you-re-an-atheist-that-doesn-t-mean-you-wouldn-t-love/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [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?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him-one-day-as-they-leaned/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/my-insides-don-t-match-up-with-my-outsides-do-anyone-s-inside-and/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagine/jonathan-safran-foer/#itemlist", "name": "12 Imagine Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. 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