Quotes About Seclusion

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

It's hard to modernize a country kept in physical or ideological isolation.

Ici, je me cache quand je veux. Je puis me cacher des jours et des jours, sans qu'on sache si j'existe ou non, et, sans que je le sache bien moi-même. Je m'enferme là-haut. Je lis, je dors, je rêve. Je ne bouge plus.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

To the dear lone lands untroubled of men, Where no voice sounds, and amid the shadowy green The little things of the woodland live unseen.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento. Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento.

I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Leave me in peace, the sight of you is abhorrent to me.

Since he was seldom seen, people often wondered about his whereabouts.

He craved a privacy impossible for the world's most famous banker.

confined to an upstairs room much of the time.

And leave me alone when I tell ya to. I will have things to do that are private. I cannot always have you trailing around with me like a strand of goose grass.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

She could shut out the whole world, including herself.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.