Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Bad Each Other Lying Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Word Yourself
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Feeling Life Loud Music Myself Stranger
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Understand Wrong Yourself
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Comfortable Experience Organization Scare Word
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Communication Music Understand
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Wonder Word Work World Worth
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Factory People Reality See Willing
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Each Other Talk Way Word
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Avoid Finding Herself Mirror Powerful
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Happiness Myself Thinking Time

Other Famous Personalities