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Everything Is Illuminated Quotes

To feel alone is to be alone.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Feels, Everything Is Illuminated

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Doe, Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life Learning, Feels, Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Being Sad, Knows, Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Hate, Absence, Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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