Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Missing Someone, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Rain, Eye, Moon

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Death, Dream, Selfish

• Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Mean, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Long, Bird

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

• (What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Eye, Space

• I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Blue, Stories

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Confused, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Cry, Melancholy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated question. He wrote, That's a very simple answer. I asked, Are you OK? He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Grateful, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Coffee, Home, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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