Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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