Quote

Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

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
Stunts
Coffee
Afraid
Growth
Death

More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Image
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
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
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
We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.
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
Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
How did her life live itself without her.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Image
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
Jonathan Safran Foer