“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
More from Jonathan Safran Foer on Life
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
“Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.”
“He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.”
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
“To feel alone is to be alone.”
“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”
“I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”
“It's better to lose something than never to have had”
Others on Life
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”