Quotes About Seclusion

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Leisure time is when your wife can't find you

In solitude, when we are least alone.

She didn't want Rufty to sit in the box, wanted more private than the lounge.

Sola went back over to the drapes that he wouldn't let her open. Jesus, it was like living with a bunch of vampires in this house, everything buttoned up during the daylight hours. Then again, that was the way of drug dealers. Night owls, the lot of them.

So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or walk about slowly remembering all the details of life which now because a million lightyears away have taken on the aspect (as they must've for Proust in his sealed room) of pleasant movies brought up at will and projected for further study ? And pleasure ? As I imagine God to be doing this very minute, watching his own movie, which is us.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

She (Emily Dickinson) loved simplicity, and perhaps withdrrew into seclusion because it was the simplest way of doing what she wanted to do; express her ideas and thoughts in poetry which no one whom she knew would understand. This was as natural to her as breathing, but the pretense of the people around her seemed unnatural.

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?

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.

Men were drawn to civilization; only the most severe ascetic among them relished isolation. Penitent hermits craved seclusion. Being away from the squalor of humanity was an integral part of their spiritual monasticism. They could talk more readily to God in the silence of their mountaintop cave or their desert isolation. It was easier to believe that the voice you heard responding to your queries issued from a divine trumpet if there were no other souls nearby. But he was a soldier.

Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world's largest collection of closed and locked doors.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

Privacy is a wonderful thing. Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.

A person's mind is his last sanctuary. - Brom

The advantage of a big city, move on a few meters and you find solitude again.

She had felt lonely for years, but now she truly was alone.

If I don't want to be seen, you don't see me.

That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average.

Eventually, the authorities realized that quarantine was the only way of containing the outbreak, and entire households were walled up.