Jonathan Safran Foer World Quotations

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

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.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.