Wisdom Quote by J.D. Salinger — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”

“He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.”

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

“It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.”

“The earth might be round, but the paths on it are flat with replayed”

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.”

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?”

“Intuition sees the path; analysis clears it.”

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.”