16 beautiful quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
“It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or ...
“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to und...
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last t...
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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 muc...
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
“With writing, we have second chances.”
“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can c...
“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's...
“Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
