Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Opportunity, Plates

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.212, Penguin UK

• So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Beautiful, Lying

• 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

  Lying, Believe, Creating

• We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Care, Persons

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.310, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

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