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
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to… — 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
“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 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
“I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what an I say, I like to see people run… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.… — 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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Consider the life of a pregnant sow. Her incredible fertility is the source of her particular hell. While a cow will give… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning… — 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
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we only have one life” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The worst it got was near the end. A lot of people died right at the end, and I didn't know if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in… — 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
“In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of… — 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