Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Good Night, Hurt, Morning

• Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Frustration, Unique

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Parent, Knowledgeable

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Hypocrisy, Parent

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

• 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

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

  "Jonathan Safran Foer: 'I'm Not So Interested in the Comforting Kind of Religion'". Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, www.csmonitor.com. April 23, 2012.

• Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Brother, Children, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.50, Penguin UK

• My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Media, Should Have, Car

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

• The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer is one. Having children is another. And getting older and watching, you know, my parents and grandparents get older has been another, the seasons of - being witness to the seasons of life and wanting to have some kind of infrastructure to deal with it, to cope with them. Ritual has become more important to me as I've gotten older. It's not always religious ritual, but it often borrows from Judaism.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Religious, Children, Grandparent

  "Jonathan Safran Foer On Marriage, Religion And Universal Balances". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, weaa.org. July 7, 2017.

• Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hurt, Children, Loss

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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