Death Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”

““I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time...”

““Why are you leaving me?”

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”

“It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”

“Grandfather informs me that is not possible.”

“If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.”

“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”

“Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.”

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”

“The thin line between life and death is still under construction.”

“If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”