Quotes About Seclusion

Submerged, I have become a refugee from the visible world.

I know every inch of this cell. This cell knows every inch of me. Except one.

Have no doubt it is fear in the land. For what can men do when so many have grown lawless? Who can enjoy the lovely land, who can enjoy the seventy years, and the sun that pours down on the earth, when there is fear in the heart? Who can walk quietly in the shadow of the jacarandas, when their beauty is grown to danger? Who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret? What lovers can lie sweetly under the stars, when menace grows with the measure of their seclusion?

He who lives well lives well hidden.

The peace and seclusion of country life have already been largely undermined by the radio, the car, and the telephone, and by the spread of bureaucracy into almost every department of life; and now if millions of people who can no longer endure the pace and the demands of city life are moving into the country, and if entire industries are dispersed into rural areas, then the urbanization of the country will go ahead fast, and the whole basic structure of life there will be changed.

Las asesorías contables son como champiñones: crecen en la oscuridad y se nutren de basura», dice Tom Mornini

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.

A land more severely solitary could hardly be found anywhere on the face of the globe. —JOHN MUIR, 1881

Withdrawal to the desert is called anachoresis in Greek.

la vieja gruñona y encorvada por el deterioro de los años, que generalmente se escondía detrás de las ramas secas

It was almost exactly like the caves to the east where my girl cousins met their swains to canoodle.

the doors securely closed.

He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

behind a forest on the edge of an unincorporated township. His closest neighbors include a dog breeder, a horse farm,

Yuri is alone in

I am the lady of the castle. My name is exile. My name is anguish. My name is longing. Far from the world on the windy crests of the mountain, I am kept in absolute seclusion, my time passes in an endless reverie, a perpetual swooning. I am both the Sleeping Beauty and the enchanted castle; the princess drowses in the castle of her flesh.

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

Privacy is paradise.