Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer:My Picks:)

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer

“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in theemergency kit in the hall closet.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer

“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, Everything Is Illuminated

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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, Everything Is Illuminated

“I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your headaway from something you do not want.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I did not need to know if he could love me.

I needed to know if he could need me.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

A thought again...

If it was not for your absence, how would I have realised how badly I missed your presence.........

Another thought....

I would not fidget, as the wrinkles would appear on your face, because I know, they would adorn your all elegant face, with a crown of maturity.....

A thought..

For a person who is waiting for something to happen, there is nothing like the confirmation that the wait, is going to end..........................................

Love..

Lone time with thoughts.

At the end of the day, I sit down with my thoughts, some turned into actions and reminiscences of others that were destined to die a premature death and all i could get myself to think is, whom am I accountable to, when it comes to these little sprinlkes in my mind. The question intrigues me because nobody can understand you as you do. Its impossible to put every thought to words, even on doing so there is absolutely no guarantee it would make same the sense to them as it does to you because every individual reflects back his /her conclusions drawn from his past ,certain prejudices or preconceived idea in his current actions. So ultimately the only person you are answerable is your own conscience and if you can convince your conscience about the motive behind your actions nothing else matters and you follow a path you were destined to .And on this path, we fear nothing. Its like once you realise what you are destined to do, life is like a walk in the garden savouring the different fragrances of the beautiful flowers and what follows is the enrichment of our souls. Because when our every action has its motive approved by the most inquisitive member in our life, our own conscience, we see beauty in everything.

You...

The moment of adieu.

Recently, was reading an article and came across a thought, which I thought truly deserved a further raking .It said, we throw farewell parties when someone quits the company, when students pass out, an employee retires(temporary parting), but when it comes to bid farewell to our very own existence, the thing that takes the blame of being unfair to hide our cowardice , our life, we are hardly given a chance, to bid a moment's farewell to the dear ones in our lives. We would say life is unfair, isn’t it?( oh!! I can already hear some long sighs, implicitly stating, when has it been??).

Death is a serious topic. The smiles vanish, and the faces are dabbed with serious maturity, when discussion tends to incline towards the subject.
Whenever I thought of death, there were certain weird things that flooded my thoughts. Here is one. What is that thing, or image, or thought, or memory, that comes to the mind of the man, who knows he is here for seconds? Does he, hasten to look around, glance at as many things as possible, not certain of what next, or would he be scared to death about death and unwillingly surrender to the inevitable with horror dabbed on his face?? Will he think of his life, a life, which represented him to his very core right from the beginning? Or would that be a series of snaps from the memory, unfolding in front of his eyes and, he would look at it his own life like a movie, when he is close to the end??  Would it be the frantic efforts to save oneself from the engulfing death, until the realization dawns upon, that there is no escape? Or would those be moments, may not be with the closest ones, but the strangers, with whom we had only a few interactions, but the ones which bore profound influence on your soul, like kindness of a stranger when nobody you relied on turned up, or like sharing your meal with someone hungry, both ending up half full, but smiled at each other with a smile, whose image remained unblurred through the passage of time?? A sigh here and a sigh there, and thinking life had not been so bad after all. In fact it was good. There would be redemptions, there would be regrets, but it would mean we have the courage to share the responsibility, for the wrong doing and, the very realization, is the life’s greatest gift to all those who live it. These days, when I am up in the morning, I ask myself can I find the moments that would touch my naked soul deep down its layers, and engrave themselves on the pages of my soul, so that, I can have a diary of a life, of my life lived. So, I am at it people, finding those moments, which would make up a nice movie, that would keep me involved when he says pause, and finding right moments are absolutely a requirement, cause I don’t think we will have an option of popcorn n coke:)

Aap:)

Aap chale gaye

Lekin dil me aapka ehsaas aaj bhi hai

Aap yaad aaye

Aur dil mein koi taar chidtha aaj bhi hai

Aankhen bandh ho jaaye

Toh aata aapka khayaal aaj bhi hai

Kaise aapko bhulaye

Yeh dil aap me marta aaj bhi hai

I don’t want

I don’t want you to take on my troubles

I just want you to be there when I doubt myself

I don’t want to hear wise words from you when I am confused

I just want you to listen when I stupidly explain why it was so

I don’t want you to tell me I am your world

I just want you to ensure me that I belong to it

I don’t want you to worry when I am sick

I just want you to sit by my side with a smile on your face and whisper these velvet words in my ears “I am always with you and I know we will get through this"

I don’t want you to get me the most expensive gifts on my birthday

I just you to be the first person to embrace me and say "Happy Bday" with a promise that it'll always remain so no matter what tomorrow brings.

In fact the only thing I want you to do is to be by my side in the scorching sun, in the beautiful springs and the heavy showers

Because without you I will be a flower that only withers