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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Total quotes: 39
“Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Relationship
“I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: soulmates
“We would have to run away, we would have to leave behind everything but each other.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Tagged: Love, Together, Running Away
“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Tagged: Relationship, Love, Compatibility, Understanding
“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Growing Up, Happiness
“Because once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Tagged: Time, Words are Powerful
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Happiness Quotes, Self love
“Since the world has changed so much, the same values don’t lead to the same choices anymore”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Tagged: Change, Choices, Values, Decisions
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Tagged: Forgetting, Remembering, Memories, forgetting and remembering, Pain, Past
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Tagged: Things You Do For Love, True Love, Romantic
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Forgetting, Laughing, humor, Sadness, Pain, Distraction
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Regrets, Life, Living, Learning
“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Tagged: Words, convey, mean, Meaning, connotation, expression, Feelings, Communication
“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Words, Speechless
“There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: self
“No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse…. But if you’re burying your feelings deep inside you, you won’t really be you, will you?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Holding Back, Feeling, emotions
“I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there ever be enough?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Joy, Happiness, Life, Living
“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Tagged: Response, actions
“...there's too much to express. I'm sorry. That's what I've been trying to say to you, I'm sorry for everything...I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Apologizing, Apologize, I'm Sorry, breakup, Parting Ways
“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Tagged: Love, romance, looking at each other, loving one another
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Loss, Grief, Relationships, Leaving Things Unsaid
“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Existential Crisis, The World
“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Staying, Leaving, Love, Running Away, Life
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Future, live in the moment, Regrets, present
“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Fear Of Love Sayings and Quotes
Tagged: Fear Of Love, Relationships
“She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Communication, Silence, Connection, Disconnection
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Life, Living, Pain, Struggle
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Best Days, Future, Belief, Treat Everything Like It Was The Last Time
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Tagged: completeness, Emptiness, Depression
“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, How To Overcome Sadness
“"I'm an optimist."
"Well that's good because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to."”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Optimism, Pessimism, Objectivity, Subjectivity
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Tragedy, Pain, humanity, Safety
“I spent my life learning to feel less.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Empathy, Emptiness, Empty, Numb, Tired
“Nothing is beautiful and true.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Truth, beauty, Reality, Subjectivity
“It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, humanity, Life, Loss, Grief
“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Loss, Pain, Missing Someone, Unconditional Love
“You can't love anything more than something you miss.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Missing Someone, Relationships, Long-Distance, Grief
“I can forgive you for leaving but not for coming back.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Leaving, Returning, forgiveness
“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Tagged: Death, Mourning, Time, Healing
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