Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

Now, I realise that love is peace. Love is when you are with somebody, and it's okay, and you don't have to talk. Their presence is important.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not.