Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog foll...

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once ...

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right pa...

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concer...

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she...

When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair wi...

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing d...

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything lik...

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, ...

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obses...

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even mor...

People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all c...

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and convers...

She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side...

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one mo...

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some...

It takes life to live life

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. Yo...

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think a...

Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same s...

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and...

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the importan...

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would bec...

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenl...

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, ...

Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do...

Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our ho...

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

Grandfather informs me that is not possible.

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided ...

We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavow...

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals...

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's env...

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated ro...

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. socie...

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the ori...

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on w...

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, reli...

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirem...

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the mos...

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standi...

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket...

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birt...

The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciati...

The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat diff...

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slight...

Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chic...

As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminate...

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more soc...

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p...

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial setting...

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of m...

Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If ...

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it re...

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that...

When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another ...

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal...

Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, c...

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to...

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb...

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama,...

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only...

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating ...

...and when is enough proof enough?

Her learning to sew (from a book Yankel brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear a...

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for...

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

It is best if the guard is in love with America and wants to overawe the American by being a premium...

With writing, we have second chances.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence g...

She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but ...

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is noth...

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...

I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine...

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she s...

The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled news...

Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were...

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

(What are your ghosts like?)(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)(This is also where my ...

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words bec...