Quote

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Regret
Takes
Learn
Live
Life

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Why I'm not where you are ...
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
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.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing Hey Jude. It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
Jonathan Safran Foer