I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love, — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Without love, you die. With love, you also die. Not all deaths are equal.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Love me, because love does not exist, and I tried everything.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She would say to him, “But you are no priest.” And he would say, “I am today.” And she would say, “Today… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect that she was not falling in love at all,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat. Do you think you could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible.… — 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
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches.… — 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
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
“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What's it about? she asked. It's about love. She laughed. They're all about love.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Jacob was right when, after Sam’s injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if she knows, I wonder in my Nothingest moments if she's testing me, if she types nonsense all day… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day… — 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