Trying Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,…

— 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…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…

— Jonathan Safran Foer