It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer If nothing matters, there's nothing to save. Jonathan Safran Foer eating-animalsnothing-mattersmatter There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt. Jonathan Safran Foer hurtdoefeelings Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life. Jonathan Safran Foer each-daywingsbelieve I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. Jonathan Safran Foer sufferingshould-haverooms A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance. Jonathan Safran Foer homewritingson Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs. Jonathan Safran Foer writingrunningsong [She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway. Jonathan Safran Foer fiction The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. Jonathan Safran Foer loving-someonesickyears If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story? Jonathan Safran Foer choicesanimalwar I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky. Jonathan Safran Foer sadluckythinking It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think. Jonathan Safran Foer kindnessmightthinking Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing. Jonathan Safran Foer ifsprayermemories Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores. Jonathan Safran Foer cancerathletefood I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back? Jonathan Safran Foer get-backi-realizedislands I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays? Jonathan Safran Foer hatedkindpersons Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question. Jonathan Safran Foer animalpigstalking I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all? Jonathan Safran Foer emptinessmotheryears Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! Jonathan Safran Foer ninewarpeople I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world. Jonathan Safran Foer appreciateoppositesthinking Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad. Jonathan Safran Foer imagineanswersdoe
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