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God Quotes by J D Salinger
- If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
- Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many…
- I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things,…
- Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top…
- Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I…
- I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
- I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
- He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people…
- If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just…
- For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study…
- My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.
- I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows…
- 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…
- This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
- She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily…
- God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.
- I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just…
- That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
- But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
- I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I…
- ...but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me…
- God, I wish you could have been there.
- I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate…
- I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it.…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi