Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Novelist · American · 1977

American novelist (born 1977)

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life love animals vegetarianism death sadness happiness humor animal-rights veganism food vegetarian ethics family nonfiction war writing meat factory-farming grief inspirational people marriage loneliness truth jonathan-safran-foer cruelty regret father nothing

“What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you love, or just the feeling? Your earliest memories...”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
anger bonsai change confession

“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
feelings good

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am cert...”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
hurt

“People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their wa...”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
animal-rights animals slaughter veganism

“She died in my arms saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if eve...”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
death death-and-dying war

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
contemporary