Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

The unknown is always interesting.

I love the mystery behind things.

I don't know what's on the other side.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.