Quotes About Privacy

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

Ka?dy czÅ'owiek jest jak Ksi??yc. Ma swojÄ… drugÄ… stronÄ™, której nie pokazuje nikomu.

La charité nous force à tirer le rideau sur le reste de cette scène.

She was reserved, and kept things to herself, as the truly great always do.

There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.

I called back, but not loud enough, probably. I don't like making noise in public

Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. -Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia

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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them.

Human beings, the pioneers were learning, have a need for both privacy and community, for flexible daily rhythms and patterns, and for the possibility of forming caring relationships with those around them.

My wife used to say I was a loner, but I'm not. I just like my time alone," he told me. So when the tour guide said that the Florence Center had single rooms, "I said, 'You must be kidding!'" The tour had only begun and already he was sold.

I felt disguised behind those glasses, less exposed, somehow freer.

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This

Han tände en cigarr och ställde sig att betrakta porträttet. Den som observerat hans ansikte nu, skulle icke kunna se hans tankar, ty han hade redan lärt sig så mycket om livets konst att han icke en gång anförtrodde ensamheten sina meningar, ja, han fruktade till och med att meddela sig med sig själv.

And as soon as I thought this, I tried to think of something else quickly. Because we were so close that I felt sometimes like she could read my mind.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.