Everything Is Illuminated Quotes:

To feel alone is to be alone.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Feels, Everything Is Illuminated

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Everything Is Illuminated

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Sunset, Auras, Nostalgia, Everything Is Illuminated, Lightness

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: "Everything Is Illuminated". www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Past, Light, Sides, Everything Is Illuminated

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sad, Lost Love, Grief, Everything Is Illuminated, Prisms

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Love You, Thinking, Most Romantic, Everything Is Illuminated

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Affliction, Our Love, Cures, Everything Is Illuminated

From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Book, Past, Light, Everything Is Illuminated

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Eye, Blue, Stories, Everything Is Illuminated

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Grandfather, Alex, Good Person, Everything Is Illuminated

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Ocean, White, Everything Is Illuminated, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Family, Hate, Mean, Inspirational Family, Everything Is Illuminated

Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.

- Eugene Hutz

topic: Girl, Dancer, Want, Everything Is Illuminated, Premium

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Doe, Everything Is Illuminated

I spent my life learning to feel less.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Life Learning, Feels, Everything Is Illuminated

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002.

topic: Love, Wall, Fall, Knockers, Everything Is Illuminated

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Being Sad, One Day, Might, Everything Is Illuminated

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Mean, Want, Language, Everything Is Illuminated

Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

topic: Hurt, Children, Loss, Everything Is Illuminated, Timbre

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Sadness, Overcoming, Way, Everything Is Illuminated

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Hate, Absence, Everything Is Illuminated

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Girl, Men, Thinking, Everything Is Illuminated