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

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

“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.”

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

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

“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really”

“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.”

“It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.”

“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”

“Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.”

“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die.”

“Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.”