Jonathan Safran Foer citations

Jonathan Safran Foer, né le 21 février 1977 à Washington, D.C., est un écrivain américain.

✵ 21. février 1977
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“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 224

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 216

“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Contexte: I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)

“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Variante: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 309

“I never confused what I had with what I was.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I did not need to know if he could love me.
I needed to know if he could need me.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“She has become an expert at confusingwithwithwith.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 73

“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”

Jonathan Safran Foer livre Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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