American novelist
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. – Jonathan Safran Foer
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. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you. – Jonathan Safran Foer
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad. – Jonathan Safran Foer
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I hated myself for going, why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays? – Jonathan Safran Foer
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. – Jonathan Safran Foer
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. – Jonathan Safran Foer
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 presence? – Jonathan Safran Foer
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does – Jonathan Safran Foer
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. – Jonathan Safran Foer
It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life. – Jonathan Safran Foer
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I never confused what I had with what I was. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Songs are as sad as the listener. – Jonathan Safran Foer
There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. – Jonathan Safran Foer
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. – Jonathan Safran Foer
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