J.D. Salinger

Novelist American 1919 – 2010

American novelist famous for The Catcher in the Rye.

372 quotes

"I really do have the saddest life you ever heard of."
"Girls kill me. They really do."
Relationships
"I'm quite the intellectual, in my own way."
"The thing is, you never know where you stand with anybody anymore."
"I'm the most modest guy you ever met in your whole life."
"That's what I mean. It kills me when people don't understand."
"I really am quite sensitive about things like that."
"The whole thing killed me, in a way."
"I don't care where people come from or what they do, as long as they're not phony."
"I'm quite sarcastic in my own way, too."
Humor
"It really does depress me when I think about it."
"I could talk about this all day, but it bores me after a while."
"That's the thing that really kills me about people."
"I'm not too sure about most things in life, but I'm sure about that."
"The way I see it, everybody's got their own problems to worry about."
"It really does kill me when somebody pretends to be something they're not."
"I'm quite intelligent, if you want to know the truth."
"That killed me absolutely dead."
Humor
"I could go on and on about this, but it's depressing as hell."
"Girls really do kill me with their phoniness sometimes."
"The thing is, I'm not too sure about anything anymore."
"I really do mean it when I say that."
"That's what kills me the most about this world."
"I'm quite the critic, in my own way."
"It really does drive me mad thinking about it."
"I'm probably the most sensitive person you'll ever meet."
"The whole thing just killed me."
"I don't really know what I'm talking about half the time."
"That's what I mean about people killing me."
"I'm quite the romantic, if you want to know the truth."