Jonathan Safran Foer Life Quotations

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness...

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

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.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

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.

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

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

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

Life is scarier than death.