Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.