Quotes About Seclusion

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

A fellow writer told me that Richard [Hell] once told her that the best thing about being a rock 'n roll star would be the option of constructing his environment so that he would never have to be around anyone he didn't want to know from, which not only sounds like building your own concentration camp but is just exactly what most of the declining rockstars of the Sixties have done to themselves.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

If I have time and the chance to travel in the Philippines, I would like to go to an island which is not popular to have a good vacation - you know, just chilling out.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

Stark was accustomed to being alone when things went wrong. For that matter, he was accustomed to being alone when things went right.

When you're alone, you're in bad compny

And then the days came when I was alone.

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

A wall of indestructible ice between him and Foeslayer. "That's not —" Arctic started, then bit back the rest of his sentence as his mother hissed at him. "In fact," she spat, "since you are so overwhelmed by this animus gift decision, it seems best for you to stay in seclusion until it is time for the ceremony. Clearly something here has been distracting you, but we won't let that be a problem anymore.

The recluse, the shunner of fame, the "I just want to be alone" escapee—B. Traven was one, so was J. D. Salinger—seems perversely to invite intrusion.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

Secrets are the enablers of antisocial, immoral and destructive behavior.

Get thee to a nunnery.

Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.

I must become a borrower of the night.

I suddenly encountered the face of loneliness, and decided that it was a merciless and ugly face indeed.

Gissing lived alone

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one.

Thomas Moro solía decir que uno debería construir un retiro, una ermita, dentro de su casa.

She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world,