Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
More Quotes from Jonathan Safran Foer:
In the end, everyone loses everyone.Jonathan Safran Foer
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Jonathan Safran Foer
My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.
Jonathan Safran Foer
A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.
Jonathan Safran Foer
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Life QuotesWhen a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
Bjorn Lomborg
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
Wilhelm Wundt
To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.
John McEnroe