Quotes About Seclusion

rusticating.

The idea is to make the space around you into a zone where nothing mortal can survive.

Being free always involves being lonely.

I want to be invisible.

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

Better for everyone to not have to deal with me

I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

I keep a band of music in my ante-room, he said once to her. It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me two excellent services. It keeps the sounds of the world from reaching the private apartments, and it makes the world think that dancing's going on within.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

I treasure my privacy.

Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.

She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!

He's still half with usConniving slyly, yet he knows he's goneInto that cellar where they'll never find him,Happy to be alone, his last work done,Word freed from world, into a different wood.

The windows were covered to block out daylight (to create a darker feel and prevent any changes

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

The right place to live is behind cream-coloured blinds.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

Amo la sombra y la oscuridad, y prefiero, cuando puedo, estar a solas con mis pensamientos.

We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.

will eventually find myself an isolated misanthrope

But this time of the year she was in her vaults, underground, and here she resided alone, spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue

Stranahan didn't consider himself an eccentric or a hermit, even though at age fifty-three he lived alone on an island at the edge of the Atlantic with no landline, satellite dish or personal computer.