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Thought Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
- Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
- I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
- We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
- I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's…
- Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere,…
- I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
- You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like…
- I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
- Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should…
- When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.'…
- I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a…
- And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or…
- This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his…
- Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the…
- But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a…
- I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd…
- I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
- 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 else, but neither…
- I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
- Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I…
- It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they…
- I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty…
- A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is…
- The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless,…
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold