Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

(...) I don´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -You´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

I lost my way for a long time.

I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.