Quotes About Privacy

I'm always getting texts asking why I'm not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I'm like, 'It's not me. You're writing to some stranger.'

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

But then, no one ever experienced anyone else's life. That was the curse of individuality, and maybe the safety of it, too. The privacy of shame, of regret.

always thought a soul was private, but it appears it can be colonized against your will if you don't watch out.

ils se parlaient à voix basse, et la conversation qu'ils avaient leur semblait plus douce, parce qu'elle n'était pas entendue.

Les célébrités : s'inquiéter du moindre détail de leur vie privée, afin de pouvoir les dénigrer.

I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.

Cât de plin? de pl?ceri ar fi viaÈ›a, dac? am putea fi siguri de alÈ›ii c? vom p?stra t?cerea. Ceea ce È›ine în frâu pe femei adesea, foarte adesea, aproape întotdeauna, e frica de a nu se descoperi secretul.

Comme la vie serait pleine de choses charmantes si nous pouvions compter sur la discrétion absolue les uns des autres.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people. PETE WENTZ

One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists.

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

The leak that comes from the outside harms no one,' he stated once more. 'It is the leak that one finds indoors that is the worst.' When one is unmarried, one must tell people to shut up in a roundabout fashion.

And you and she? Stuffing regularly?' 'No, no, for God's sake, Bubble, not since the time you watched us. It wouldn't be the same without you there.

In both instances, men have become entirely private, that is, they have been deprived of seeing and hearing others, of being seen and being heard by them. They are all imprisoned in the subjectivity of their own singular experience, which does not cease to be singular if the same experience is multiplied innumerable times. The end of the common world has come when it is seen only under one aspect and is permitted to present itself in only one perspective.

but every home is its own island with its own secrets.

I'm not sure we should get camera phones, that's all. She hit the remote and the car doors unlocked. She reached for the door handle. Matt hesitated. Olivia looked at him. What? he asked. If we both get camera phones, Olivia said, I could send you nuddies when you're at work. Matt opened the door. Verizon on Sprint? from The Innocent

Another male patron skulked around the back like he was in the adult movie area at his local video store. Again

Nah," Hal said. "Tit always comes in with the same limpdicked crew and they leave together. They don't talk to no one else. It's verboten.

Brett told me you spy on him," Hester said. Brett and his big mouth, she thought. Wonderful. "I monitor his online activity." "You say tomato, I say tomahto.

He passed a hair salon called Snip Away, which sounded more like a vasectomy clinic than a beauty parlor. The Snip Away beauticians were either reformed mall girls or guys named Mario whose fathers were named Sal. Two patrons sat in a window - one getting a perm, the other a bleach job. Who wanted that? Who wanted to sit in a window and have the whole world watch you get your hair done?

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.