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#1

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy

#2

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: friendship, insincerity, manners

3123 likes

#3

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

1668 likes

#4

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

tags: happiness

831 likes

#5

“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

tags: immortality, remembrance

622 likes

#6

“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: girls, holden

2493 likes

#7

“The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.”
― Woody Allen

245 likes

#8

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

687 likes

#9

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: death, immortality, remembrance

996 likes

#10

“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, laughter

1739 likes

#11

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.”
― Jim Morrison

330 likes

#12

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

1326 likes

#13

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1961 likes

#14

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

429 likes

#15

“Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

431 likes

#16

“I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

229 likes

#17

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: death, love

442 likes

#18

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

tags: love

1331 likes

#19

“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”
― Joan Baez

tags: death, killing, violence

117 likes

#21

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, death, poetry, women

1042 likes

#22

“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

tags: teddy

596 likes

#23

“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: beauty

306 likes

#25

“Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly . . . ”
― Maria Housden, Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived

27 likes

#26

“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

189 likes

#27

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
― Werner Herzog

tags: academia, film, movies, passion, scholars, scholarship

234 likes

#28

“Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: kid

86 likes

#29

“Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

100 likes

#30

“That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

tags: for-esmé-with-love-and-squalo, humor

36 likes

#31

“He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

64 likes

#32

“Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

225 likes

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