She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. - Jonathan Safran Foer
But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. - Jonathan Safran Foer
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Era un genio della tristezza, e in essa si tuffava distinguendone i molti fili, apprezzandone le sfumature più sottili. Era un prisma attraverso cui la tristezza poteva suddividersi enl suo infinito sprettro. Brod, inventrice delle 613 Tristezze - Jonathan Safran Foer
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written. - Jonathan Safran Foer
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself. - Jonathan Safran Foer
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. - Jonathan Safran Foer
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out. - Jonathan Safran Foer
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 certain, than the existent hurt. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me - Jonathan Safran Foer
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? - Jonathan Safran Foer
It takes life to live life - Jonathan Safran Foer
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 much as I think about you. - Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. - Jonathan Safran Foer
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Grandfather informs me that is not possible. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Un giorno farai per me cose che hai in odio. E' questo che vuol dire essere una famiglia. - Jonathan Safran Foer
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. - Jonathan Safran Foer