“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I hit the spacebar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life,… — 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
“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“[...] I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she… — 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
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Don't you find that strange? I can't believe I never found it strange before. It's like your name, how you don't notice… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely… — 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
“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Brod's 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
“ I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I pointed at, Something. He pointed at, Nothing. I pointed at, Something. Nobody pointed at, I love you. There was no way… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“...if we are to be such nomads with the truth, why do we not make the story more premium than life? It… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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