Quotes About Privacy

Recognize your desire for privacy and not having to share everything you feel and experience with someone. You are unique and private. If you feel you must share everything then you are without choice, and of course, a dependent.

Maslow notes that the self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a feshness of appreciation; and has a genuine desire to help the human race.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.

I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed—Amazon logging every page turn and annotation—was a potential security hazard. Not to mention the darker esoteric potential of spending too much time staring at a device controlled by a secretive billionaire in Seattle. The void stares also, and so on.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

Vigny, more secret,As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

life could be wonder full if people would leave you alone...

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.

I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind.

I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as assault weapons

No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

A perfect couple is a wholly private thing. No one but the two people in the perfect relationship know for certain whether they're in one. Its only defining quality is that it's composed of two people who feel perfectly right about sharing their lives with each other, even during the hard times.

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobodys damn business.

Judas. It's none of your business how other people spend their money.

That's what human relationships are about – selective sharing and hiding of information to the point of crazy confusion.

High-class people have this concept called space, which means you cannot ask them questions or give them opinions about certain aspects of their life.

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