It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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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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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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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 felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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