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Quotes About Seclusion

I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors.
~ Don DeLillo
Betrothed" We get to be alone by time, by luck, or by misadventure.
~ Jack Gilbert
Solitude can reshape your life. Like a river that gets cut off from the sea. You think it's moving somewhere, but it's not. You can drown inside yourself.
~ Madeleine Thien
The unhappy little home was out in the country, some six miles south of Clanton on an old county road that went nowhere in particular. The house could not be seen from the
~ John Grisham
For man, there is nothing harder to endure than loneliness.
~ Unknown
In order to see him it is necessary to meet him in seclusion, far from the main activity of the business scene.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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~ Mahmoud Darwish
Each of us is indeed alone.
~ Marcel Proust
No banishment, indeed, to the South Pole, or to the summit of Mont Blanc, can separate us so entirely from our fellow creatures as a prolonged residence in the seclusion of a secret vice, that is to say of a state of mind that is different from theirs.
~ Marcel Proust
I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world...
~ Marcel Proust
And then my thoughts, did not they form a similar sort of hiding-hole, in the depths of which I felt that I could bury myself and remain invisible even when I was looking at what went on outside?
~ Marcel Proust
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
~ William O. Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
~ William O. Douglas
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door] Nollopton Monty No-way 6 Insane woman named Ella: Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone. Anonymess
~ Mark Dunn
Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
~ Mark Kramer
This presence of God so inflamed and transported him that it was difficult for him to contain himself. He said he was more united to God in his outward work, than when he left it for devotion in seclusion.
~ Unknown
I needed to have an emotion in private.
~ Martha Wells
because privacy blah blah blah
~ Martha Wells
The only peace is being out of earshot.
~ Mason Cooley
How was she to endure knowing he was in town these next two weeks, without throwing herself into his arms again? She would hide in her home and not come out until the day of the wedding. Yes, that was the only solution.
~ Unknown
When you get away with something it's yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.
~ Megan Abbott
And no sound from outside or anywhere. That must be the thing when you have money, I think. You never have to hear anything you don't want to, ever.
~ Megan Abbott
Again, that sense of being stifled, cloistered, removed from the world and locked away.
~ Megan Chance