J.D. Salinger

Novelist American 1919 – 2010

American novelist famous for The Catcher in the Rye.

372 quotes

"I couldn't help it. I really couldn't."
"That's the hell of it, you know."
Life
"You're driving me crazy sometimes."
"I think everything is fair in love and war."
Love
"It really does, it kills me."
"Sometimes you meet people and you're not sure why you like them."
Relationships
"I don't know. I really don't know what I'm doing."
"Everybody's got all these vices."
Philosophy
"That really is the thing that gets me."
"You have to be careful what you're doing."
Wisdom
"The problem with getting old is you lose people along the way."
Time
"What really gets me is when people act all phonies."
"Sometimes you have to compromise on the things you want."
Life
"I'm the kind of person who does things the hard way."
Perseverance
"That'd really kill me to think about it."
"You can't really protect people from life."
Wisdom
"What I really want to do is just rest for a while."
Peace
"Sometimes people drive you absolutely crazy."
Relationships
"I think you have to be careful about how you treat people."
Kindness
"The real problem is that people don't listen."
"What I'm trying to say is I don't understand anything."
Wisdom
"You can't win them all."
Life
"I don't really know how to live my life properly."
Life
"That would really be something, if you could do that."
Dreams
"The thing is, you can't escape from things."
"It really kills me when people give up."
Perseverance
"What I mean is, sometimes you just feel like disappearing."
Solitude
"You have to accept people the way they are."
"That's the real tragedy, if you ask me."
"I'm always doing things wrong, it seems."