She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.
Jonathan Safran FoerShe wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.
Jonathan Safran FoerLife is scarier than death.
Jonathan Safran FoerIt is better to lose than never to have had.
Jonathan Safran FoerIf we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: life inspirational thought-provoking
Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
Jonathan Safran FoerIts so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?
Jonathan Safran FoerThen I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Jonathan Safran FoerSometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
Jonathan Safran FoerWhen I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I asked her why she wasn't having chicken with my older brother and me: "I don't want to hurt anything." [...] What our babysitter said made sense to me, not only because it seemed true, but because it was the extension to food of everything my parents had taught me. We don't hurt family members. We don't hurt friends or strangers. We don't even hurt upholstered furniture. My not having thought to include animals in that list didn't make them the exceptions to it. It just made me a child, ignorant of the world's workings. Until I wasn't. At which point I had to change my life.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: vegetarianism-ethics
« first previous
Page 42 of 85.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.