"Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else."
—
Jonathan Safran Foer
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
See all 526 quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer »
More Anything Else Quotes
This quote is filed under Anything Else Quotes,
one of 1,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I…
— Paul Auster
-
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
-
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
-
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else…
— Richard Bach
-
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
— James A. Baldwin
-
What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you…
— George Matthew Adams
-
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
— Henry Adams
-
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
— Mario Batali
-
I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
— Emmanuelle Beart
-
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
— Martha Beck
See all 1,558 Anything Else Quotes »