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Quotes About Seclusion

I'm so secluded. Very alone.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
~ Jack Whittaker
I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
~ Joseph Monninger
Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.
~ Demi Moore
The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.
~ Jessica Simpson
I'm happy when my name's not in the paper.
~ Til Schweiger
When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.
~ Jeff Greene
Dzogchen Tantra when it suggests: 'As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a mad one beyond all limits, go where you please and live like a lion, completely free of all fear.
~ Philip Carr-Gomm
After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.
~ David E. Sanger
When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.
~ Don Felder
The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
~ William Slim
When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Aloneness isn't loneliness.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.
~ Jonathan Swift
it was as if she'd shut out the outside world. No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.
~ Abraham Verghese
I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.
~ Adrienne Rich
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
~ Thomas Clarkson
Man is not to fight with other human races, other human individuals, but his work is to bring about reconciliation and Peace and to restore the bonds of friendship and love. We are not like fighting beasts. It is the life of self which is predominating in our life, the self which is creating the seclusion, giving rise to sufferings, to jealousy and hatred, to political and commercial competition. All these illusions will vanish, if we go down to the heart of
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.
~ Fred Davis
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
~ Will Oldham
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk