Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I have always practiced by myself. It's just because that is when I can do the most work, the most efficient work, is when I am by myself, and I think I just find a little bit of peace when it comes to being able to be out here on the golf course, and you are just you and yourself and your thoughts.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

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

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

Each life needs its own quiet place.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

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

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.