Quotes About Seclusion

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

The place didn't even have crime. Except murder. The only criminal thing that ever happened in this village was the worst possible crime.

A tone not often let out in public, preferring privacy.

This is being written abord the S.S. Augustus, three days at sea. My suitcase is full of peanut butter, and I am a fugitive from the suburbs of all large cities.

When everyone leaves you its loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Solitude is achieved when one is living in a state unaffected by or away from disagreeable people.

Everybody at least once needs somewhere they can be alone, a space where they could hold tight to the serenity and privacy of their own.

It's just the meaning of being alone

A day alone, only that would be death.

Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.

I like being out of the limelight.

I am not comfortable, being in the limelight and I think that's fine. When I have to, I talk. Otherwise, I prefer not to.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

On the top you are always lonely.

I'm a loner and always have been.

I've always been a loner.

I'm a loner.

I used to consider myself a loner.

It is odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it.

I don't intend to let myself become the kind of author who can only work in seclusion – after all, Jane Austen wrote in the sitting-room and merely covered up her work when a visitor called (though I bet she thought a thing or two) – but I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.