"Our love was the affliction for which only……" — Jonathan Safran Foer

"Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure."

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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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…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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