Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Confused, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Bored, Waiting, Darkness

• Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Brother, Children, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.50, Penguin UK

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