Famous Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”

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

“ he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say ”

Jonathan Safran Foer

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

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

“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

“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”

Jonathan Safran Foer

“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”

Jonathan Safran Foer

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

Jonathan Safran Foer