“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
“I am a very sad person. I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands,… — 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
“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
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — 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
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor of his sadness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum” — 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
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and… — 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
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than… — 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
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