Quotes About Privacy

You have to have an inside you, she used to say, and an outside you. Ain't nobody's business who you are really, so it's up to you what you gave them.

A man should have a safe big enough to hold his secrets. Bigger even, so you have room to grow

He yearned for privacy and for solitude. After my transportation to a so-called "rest camp," I had the rare fortune to find solitude for about five minutes at a time.

If you enjoy sex or explore aspects of your sexual identity using technology, that experience should belong to you. Only you should get to decide whether it was a good or bad thing to do.

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.

Pray heaven that the inside of my mind may not be exposed

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.

People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.

It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw.

They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.

Quinientos a la semana y una puerta con pestillo.

it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.

I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly unshaded window to obtain a free glimpse of things that the most jaded voyeur would have paid a small fortune to watch.

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

I did not rush up to her room with cries. I always preferred the mental hygiene of noninterference.

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time. I'd rather give them things than time.

Freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this " freedom" give "big brother", the opportunity to dictate our way of life???

Para guardar un secreto, lo mejor es que lo sepa el menor número de gente, ¿sabes? Por eso, la Guardia

wasn't adaptable. She needed the city. She needed congestion. She needed masses of people where she could lose herself and simply exist, anonymously, without the constant scrutiny of others. Courtney

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.