Quotes About Seclusion

The great thing about going to Malawi is I have no contact for at least a week with anything that's happening back in Washington.

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion

I long now to be alone in some far-off cave and think without thought of others' eyes on me

but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I spend most of my free time under the house.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss.

Where is privacy, if not in the mind?

Frances is a sealed letter. It doesn't matter where she's been or who's pawed her, no one gets to handle the contents no matter how grimy the envelope. And it's for sure no one's going to be able to steam her open.

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

He wouldn't know what to do with himself. He hates a house full of people. And

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...

The universe was vast, but that fact terrified him less than its mystery. George was not a person who thought deeply on such matters, yet sometimes it seemed to him that men were like children amusing themselves in some secluded playground, protected from the fierce realities of the outer world.

Seclusion I can understand; but why print? Printing is a clumsy process. Why not write? What would it suggest, Watson?

It's the home I've always dreamed of, Theodora said. A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or-

Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

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