Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...”

“And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will ...”

“All that mattered was him looking at me”

“It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.”

“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”

“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.”

“Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!”

“... we decided to create a Nothing Place in the living room, it seemed necessary, because there are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to dis...”

“If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. Tha...”

“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day ...”

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

“Anyway.I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can read anything I want. My favorite book is A Brief History of Time, even though I ...”

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.”

“Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realida...”

“Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn’t going to be room to bury anyone anymore? For my ninth birthday l...”

“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, "I mount the autobus for an h...”

“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”

“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter tha...”

“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”