Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes about Sadness

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The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Overcoming, Way

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Hands, Laughing

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Music, Song, Sadness

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Mean, Knowing

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Girl, Dog, Sadness

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sadness of love without release.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Release

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Growing, Life Learning

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Frustration, Unique

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness, Trying, Wanted

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt