Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Love can never be fully explained.

What do any of us really know about love?

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

You never know when you actually fall in love.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.