Jonathan Safran Foer Is Quotations

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

To feel alone is to be alone.

That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

Life is scarier than death.