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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life, Feelings, Emptiness
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Hate, Feelings, Going Away
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Jonathan Safran Foer
People, Feelings, Littles
"Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us". www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Night, Feelings, Paws
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Feelings, Different, Would Be
Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Dream, Forever, Feelings
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

Jonathan Safran Foer
Feelings, Language, Speak
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Hurt, Feelings, Doe
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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