Quotes About Seclusion

She was in the middle of nowhere, and it was a delicious feeling to know that no one knew where she was.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

This was the time to leave, to go far away. So I pushed the door open and stepped quietly in.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

Life moves on but i want to live alone.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

Toen zag hij een deur openstaan naar de enige plaats waar men zich altijd aan de wereld onttrekken kan. Niemand weet wie zich bevindt op een afgesloten wc.

We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

To be free is to have a zone around you that is private, where you can be with your own thoughts, your own expeirements, for a time, between confrontations with the larger world.

No one knows who you are right now. And that's just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you're in the shadows.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?