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

“You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.”

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

“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.”

“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.”

“You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.'”

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

“Sundays too my father got up early”

“and the afterglow...”

“girls”

“you’re already naked in this world”

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”