Life Quotes Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”

“I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

“He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.”

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

“All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”

“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”

“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”