# Jonathan Safran Foer

- Quotes: 47
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer

## Books

- [Eating Animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/eating-animals.md) — 5 quotes
- [Everything is Illuminated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated.md) — 13 quotes
- [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md) — 29 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? (p. 279)

> By the standards of the international human rights community, the typical working conditions in America's slaughterhouses constitute human rights violations.

> "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." (p. 43)

> I spent my life learning to feel less.
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> Every day I felt less.
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> Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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> You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

p. 180

> He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.

> Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. (p. 113)

> In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. (p. 74)

> Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else?

> My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

> She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore. (p. 189)

> "Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn't feed themselves, because they couldn't get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did!" "They starved?" "They fed each other! That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!" I don't believe in the afterlife." "Neither do I, but I believe in the story."

p. 142

> There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything. (p. 175)