Quotes About Seclusion

He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.

xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.

I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.

She shut her curtains, locked the door, and lifted her mattress, pulling out last year's Sustainable Logging Lumberjack Calendar. She flipped through the pages and sighed. Yes, the lumberjacks had chiseled jaws, warm eyes, and broad shoulders beneath flannel shirts.

The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended.

I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

She leads a rather lonely life.

They seemed very much alone together in the room.

I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, death-like solitude.

A wall of the most effective soundproofing: indifference.

what I'm like—except tonight." "Do you live here alone, like this, miles away from everything?" Wyatt pointed at the window. "I'm a couple of steps away from—everything." "What about people?" "I have guest rooms for the kind of people who come to see me on business. I want as many miles as possible between myself and all the other kinds.

you've not seen the far end of lonely.

it came to feel more a fortress than a home. A fortress of solitude.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

João José, o Professor, desde o dia em que furtara um livro de histórias numa estante de uma casa da Barra, se tornara perito nestes furtos. Nunca, porém, vendia os livros, que ia empilhando num canto do trapiche, sob tijolos, para que os ratos não os roessem. Lia-os todos numa ânsia que era quase febre.

Count Chojnicki was curious. No other passion than curiosity sent him out into the world, drew him to the tables of the great gaming halls, sequestered him behind the walls of his old hunting pavilion, sat him down on the parliamentarians' benches, determined that he would return home every spring, compelled him to throw his regular parties, and prevented him from cutting his own throat. It was curiosity that kept him alive.

The sight suddenly drove home the fantastic isolation of the place.

Aún con todas sus imperfecciones, una de las grandes ideas del hombre ha sido siempre la de retirarse a una celda para ponerse allí, como centinela solitario

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.