Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Powerful
Regarded
Form
Encounter
Would
Encounters
Life
Fish
Fishes
Argument
Regard
Intelligent
Eaten
More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
Jonathan Safran Foer
It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
Jonathan Safran Foer
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
Jonathan Safran Foer
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Years were passing through the spaces between moments.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
Jonathan Safran Foer
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
Jonathan Safran Foer
She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
Jonathan Safran Foer
