Quotes from Jonathan Safran Foer

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach

Za posledních tÃ…â"¢i a p?l tisíce let bylo v celém civilizovaném svÄ›tÄ› jenom dvÄ› stÄ› tÃ…â"¢icet let míru.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jews have four hundred for schmuck.

SvÄ›t není pÃ…â"¢íÅ¡erný, ale žije na nÄ›m spousta pÃ…â"¢íÅ¡erných lidí.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.

Who's Norma Jean Mortenson?" "Marilyn Monroe!" "Who's Marilyn Monroe?" "Sex!

Human beings are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.

If there's no love in the world, we will make a new world and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

But it's turtles all the way down!

She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live

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

When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweller to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice.

In another place, their sons were killed between the barbs of their own guard wire, killed with misfired bombs while squirming in the mire like animals, killed with friendly fire, killed sometimes without knowing that they were about to die - a bullet through the head while joking with a comrade, laughing

I am not a bad person, he said. I am good person who has lived un a bad time.

E asa de greu sa te exprimi. - Eu inteleg. - Eu vreau sa ma exprim. - La fel si eu. - Imi caut vocea. - E in gura ta.

Sie war ein Genie der Traurigkeit: Sie badete in Traurigkeit, sie entwirrte die zahlreichen Stränge der Traurigkeit, sie kostete alle zarten Nuancen der Traurigkeit aus. Sie war ein Prisma, durch dass die Traurigkeit in ihr undendlich breit gefächertes Spektrum zerlegt werden kontte.

I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering

Eram ca doi prieteni. Pentru prima oara de cand ma stiam, m-am simtit in intregime bine.

Julia hated to see nervous children. She wanted to go to her, give her an inspirational talk—explain that life changes, and what is weak becomes strong, and what is a dream becomes a reality that requires a new dream.

Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?

Autor wspomina w ksi??ce, jak to na jednej z pamiÄ…tkowych notatek pozostawionych po wizycie w rze?ni któreÅ› z odwiedzajÄ…cych jÄ… dzieci napisaÅ'o: DziÄ™kujÄ™ za Å›wiÅ"skie oczy. Faktycznie, przydaÅ'yby nam siÄ™ oczy zwierzÄ…t, ?ebyÅ›my mogli rzeczywiÅ›cie zobaczy?, na czym polega dramat losu, jaki ludzie im zgotowali. Ludzkie najwyra?niej nam nie wystarczajÄ…. - PosÅ'owie Dariusza Gzyry

There were those who suspected that he was not pinned under his wagon but swept out to sea, with the secrets of his life kept forever inside him, like a love note in a bottle, to be found one morning by an unsuspecting couple on a romantic beach stroll.

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.