Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

This moment,which we are living right now will pass too. We have to enjoy, enjoy all that we can.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.