Quotes About Seclusion

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size by day's end. The concept was so riveting I found it hard at sunset to flee the library basement and take the bus home to reality: my house, my wife, and our baby daughter.

They had been hiding out, waiting, given shelter by my intuitive self, all these years.

How alone this was going to be.

Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Avoiding other people was his new goal in life.

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I became expert at making myself invisible.

It is seldom that persons who enjoy intervals of public life are happy in their periods of seclusion.

This drug kills the parasite while sparing (one hopes) the patient. As bad as ampho B is, this one is worse: Even in the best scenarios it has dreadful side effects. We heard from Virgilio that Oscar, who had been bitten on the right side of his face, had almost died of the treatment and was recovering in seclusion in Mexico. He would have a nasty scar for life; he later grew a beard to cover it up and declined to speak of his experience or do any further work at T1.

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

As a celebrity, you have to have some type of peace of your personal life.

No one is supposed to know about my personal life because that is supposed to be kept private.

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.

My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.

No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'

Alone was the loneliest place on earth