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

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”

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

“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.”

“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.”

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?”

“I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like”

“Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“If we want to discuss love, which after all we believe is something very special, it is not much help for someone to explain that it represents a universal basic principle governing the tides and the digestive system alike. He might as well tell us that death is a thermodynamic phenomenon affecting both the amoeba and a black hole in the constellation of Pegasus - and he would still have told us nothing.”

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”