Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

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

Love is a many trousered thing.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

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

Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

I'm searching for a real love.

One should always be in love.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

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

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.

Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.