Quotes & Sayings About Sadness In Catcher In The Rye

Maybe the reason we like stories so much is because they deliver wish fulfillment. Maybe we sit in the dark and shovel sugar into our mouths because in so many stories everything is made right, and we secretly long for that ourselves. — Donald Miller

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. — Oscar Wilde

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep. — Mary MacLane

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy. — Frederick Lenz

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire. — Bonnie Raitt

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. — Julian Assange

Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair
Tangling in the tide's green fall
Now fold their wings like bats and disappear
Into the attic of the skull. — Sylvia Plath

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

You don't pray?" Ram asks.
"Which one should I pray to," I say flatly, "the dragon, or the fairy?"
Ram stares at me.
I tug on my ponytail. "That's our religion," I explain, suddenly self-conscious. "A mountain fairy married a dragon. That's where we all come from."
I can see the shy smile poking at Ram's lips. "You're half-fairy?"
"And half-dragon," I remind him.
"Right. Definitely. — Rose Christo

One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is ... There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it ... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting. — Anthony Burgess