Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

A lot of the emotions we portray are universal themes that resonate with everyone, so the fact that people feel invested in our partnership is truly remarkable.

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

He shook his head. “No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do.” I waited for more. “That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?” Those green eyes held me. “I don't think I need to.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.