World Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

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How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world,…

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What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out…

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Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really…

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...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I…

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How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I…

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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

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away…

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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on…

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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than…

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“Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world?…

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Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it…

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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love…

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Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be…

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What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...…

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The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep…

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Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees…

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“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care…

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Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly…

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“There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that”

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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

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“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world”

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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,…

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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending…

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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some…

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I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how…

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What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down…

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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our…

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Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

— Jonathan Safran Foer