“Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.”
More from Jonathan Safran Foer on Life
“It's better to lose something than never to have had”
“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world”
“It takes life to live life”
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
“There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.”
“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.”
“No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time”
“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
“You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of”
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
Others on Life
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”