Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

Death is an absolute marvel.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Birth was the death of him.

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

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.