Jonathan Safran Foer цитаты

Джонатан Сафран Фоер — американский писатель еврейского происхождения.

✵ 21. Февраль 1977
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“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Eating Animals

Источник: Eating Animals

“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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: 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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: 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 книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153

“Humans 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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 99

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

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

“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Контексте: 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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: 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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Вариант: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Источник: 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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: 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 книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: 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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 74

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

“She has become an expert at confusingwithwithwith.”

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

Jonathan Safran Foer книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: 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 книга Жутко громко и запредельно близко

Источник: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close