Quotes About Privacy

I'm a loner. I like to hide a lot.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.

I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.

I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

I'm really good at hiding my emotions.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.

My day is spent hiding from people.

Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. 

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.  

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.

They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.

They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you.