Jonathan Safran Foer Zitate (270 Zitate, seite 2)

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Kontext: I felt that night, on the stage, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? (p. 145)

“It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake.”

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Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.”

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Everything Is Illuminated (2002)

“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.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

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Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

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Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true.”

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Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 43

“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.”

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Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 130

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”

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Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”

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“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?”

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Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”

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“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Variante: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”

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Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”

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Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say”

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Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated

“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”

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"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah

Variante: She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close