I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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