“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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the… — 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
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — 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
Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I’m here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I’m having an impossible time with my life.” “Should it upset her?”… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life… — 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
“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
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'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Now that I'm thinking about it," I told Gerald, "they could make an incredibly long limousine that had it's back seat at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We all have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. — 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
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
“So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all… — 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
