Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes about Heart

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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips,

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Heart, Technology, Worry

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

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Heart, Mean, People

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Heart, Hands, Touching

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Crazy, Heart, Bruises

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker. [...] I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Heart, What If, Littles

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005.

I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing, Heart, Joy

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt