Quotes About Seclusion

the reflective isolation of this year

She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless.

Not for-an empire would those lunatics have gone outside their minds. A madman's thoughts are just the usual ideas of a human being, except that they're hermetically sealed inside his head. The world never gets into his head, and that's the way he wants it. A sealed head is like a lake without an outlet, standing, stagnant.

La vera solitudine è in un luogo che vive per sé e che per voi non ha traccia né voce, e dove dunque l'estraneo siete voi.

course, didn't mean much, since Roseto was so much in its own world that it was possible to live in the next town and never know much about it. "One of the times when

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

The difference, Gopal told the Rationalists, between the Science Association and their own society was that they did not consider science alone, something people pursued in the seclusion of laboratories, important in itself. He himself was studying not science but English literature. Their aim was the application of rational principles to everything around them—to their own lives, to society, to religion, to history. It didn't matter what.

Why does one's best writing require secrecy, silence, and darkness?

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

She wasn't comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.

While basking in the limelight, one sacrificed privacy. Anonymity has distinct advantages. Keeping to the background afforded one much more maneuverability and, thereby, power.

Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion.

You are forever alone.

Some people had a way of colonizing spaces, adapting them to form sanctuaries for themselves. Quayle was such a man. Billy took a seat

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

I want to keep my private life private.

Nobody can find me here, he thought. And then he thought, what if nobody can find me here?

There is no leisure in a life of indolence. That should be left to the birds and beasts. There is seclusion even in a crowd, Tranquillity in the streets of a town. The mountain clouds are free from worldly attachments, They come and go of themselves. How can the place to bury one's bones Be limited to the green mountains?

But where can you go and truly not be found? Where can anyone go anymore?