J. D. Salinger Quotes

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

Take time to be quiet.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

I like silence.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

I really love peace and quiet.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

I don't know when I'll ever get a chance to be all alone in a film.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

I love the process of being alone in a room.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.