"I'm interested in the kind of religion that……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Comforting Quotes
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really…
— Amy Adams
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super…
— Kristen Bell
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
— Felix Adler
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
— Mitch Albom
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When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined,…
— Nick Cave
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky
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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
— Princess Diana
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