Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes - Page 2

American novelist

The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
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I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
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She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
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I did not need to know if he could love me.I needed to know if he could need me.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.
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I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.
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You can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up?’ ‘I don’t know. I’m only me.’ ‘Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’ ‘But it’s worse for me.’ ‘I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.’ ‘Probably. But it really is worse for me.
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What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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