Quote

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

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
Religion
Wage
War
Wages
Human
Kiss
Humans
Loud
Way
Kissing
Lips
Blushes
Laughing
Kisses
Animal
Laughs

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track? Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. But if you don’t tell me anything, how can I ever be right? He circled something in an article and said, Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
My insides don't match up with my outsides. Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? I don't know. I'm only me. Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is something. Being good.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
You have to do something bad to do something good.
Jonathan Safran Foer