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
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I remember spending an afternoon with Mr. Richter in the Central Park Zoo, I went weighted down with food for the animals,… — 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
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music… — 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
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
“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
“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
“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.” — 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
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — 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
“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a… — 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
“[...] 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
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life? — 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.” — 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
