J. D. Salinger Quotes

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

When I think about my late grandmother and how she used to talk to me, I become very emotional.

My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I'm thinking about him, if only for a minute or two.

... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.

I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.

I think when we lose somebody, when we interact with those things that they also loved - like, you listen to their favorite music, or you read their favorite books - it's just a way to get in touch with them and your memories of them.

When you lose someone, their memory lives on.

I used to watch 'Last Comic Standing' with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.

You want to attach emotionally.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.