--- title: "9 One day Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer" description: "9 One day quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Plus more from Jonathan Safran Foer and more One day sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/jonathan-safran-foer-136_experience_i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-ex_1823273.png" --- > [I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-experience-of-doing-something/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/jonathan-safran-foer-136_experience_i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-ex_1823273.png) > [One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/one-day-you-will-do-things-for-me-that-you-hate-that-is-what-it-means/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5db/jonathan-safran-foer-136_family_one-day-you-will-do-things-for-me-that-y_1345339.png) > [I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-am-not-sad-he-would-repeat-to-himself-over-and-over-i-am-not-sad-as-3/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ef/jonathan-safran-foer-136_being-sad_i-am-not-sad-he-would-repeat-to-himself_1315879.png) > [Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/maybe-one-day-the-world-will-change-that-we-ll-be-in-a-luxurious/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/jonathan-safran-foer-136_able_maybe-one-day-the-world-will-change-that_870295.png) > [Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him-one-day-as-they-leaned/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_girl_do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him_39508.jpg) > [If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-we-were-to-one-day-encounter-a-form-of-life-more-powerful-and/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/398/jonathan-safran-foer-136_argument_if-we-were-to-one-day-encounter-a-form-o_189073.png) > [I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-m-grateful-for-anything-that-reminds-me-of-what-s-possible-in-this/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/jonathan-safran-foer-136_anything-is-possible_i-m-grateful-for-anything-that-reminds-m_2204766.jpg) > [Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/darling-you-asked-me-to-write-you-a-letter-so-i-am-writing-you-a/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79f/jonathan-safran-foer-136_darling_darling-you-asked-me-to-write-you-a-lett_3129681.jpg) > [It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-will-never-be-the-case-that-people-won-t-eat-meat-i-think-it-could/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f35/jonathan-safran-foer-136_amount_it-will-never-be-the-case-that-people-wo_1125905.jpg) ## Other authors on One day ## More by Jonathan Safran Foer > [This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/this-brings-me-back-to-the-image-of-kafka-standing-before-a-fish-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-try-not-to-remember-the-life-that-i-didn-t-want-to-lose-but-lost/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-have-an-aristocratic-smile-and-like-to-punch-people/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/he-removed-several-pages-of-death-certificates-which-were-picked-up/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-would-have-done-anything-for-him-maybe-that-was-my-sickness-we-made/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/one-day-i-wandered-away-from-her-and-hid-i-liked-the-way-it-felt-to/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-nothing-matters-there-s-nothing-to-save/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-was-one-of-the-best-days-of-my-life-a-day-during-which-i-lived-my/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-appearance-was-misleading-human-dreams-rubbish-heaps-abundant-yet/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-entirety-of-human-society-and-moral-progress-represents-an/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/food-is-not-so-much-a-symbol-of-freedom-as-the-first-requirement-of/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/rationally-factory-farming-is-so-obviously-wrong-in-so-many-ways-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/just-because-you-re-an-atheist-that-doesn-t-mean-you-wouldn-t-love/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him-one-day-as-they-leaned/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/my-insides-don-t-match-up-with-my-outsides-do-anyone-s-inside-and/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/one-day/jonathan-safran-foer/#itemlist", "name": "9 One day Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-experience-of-doing-something/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/jonathan-safran-foer-136_experience_i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-ex_1823273.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/jonathan-safran-foer-136_experience_i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-ex_1823273.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/jonathan-safran-foer-136_experience_i-hope-that-one-day-you-will-have-the-ex_1823273.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you…” — Jonathan Safran Foer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One day you will do things for me that you hate. 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