Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Dog, Intelligent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

• The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, Feelings, Going Away

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.68, 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 was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Feelings, Emptiness

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

• I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Night, Skulls

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hurt, Feelings, Doe

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Morning, Air

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Heart, Hands, Touching

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Night, Feelings, Paws

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, 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 couldn't speak the language of his feelings

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Feelings, Language, Speak

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Character, Reflection

• What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Forever, Feelings

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Feelings, Different, Would Be

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

• People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Feelings, Littles

  "Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us". www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

• There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious. You know, we've just been sort of too vigilant about our terminology and our definitions and too precious about it. But there's nobody who is indifferent to the experience of standing in front of an ocean at night. There's nobody who is indifferent to the feeling of, you know, lying on your back and looking up at the night sky.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Religious, Lying, Book

  Source: www.npr.org

• I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  School, Son, Thinking

  "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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