Quotes About Seclusion

I'm a private person in many ways.

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

I am a totally private person. I don't go to Bollywood parties.

I can't imagine anything worse than being in a position that you're not allowed to live your life privately.

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

As they put it, "once the door to the stall is closed, it is transformed into the occupying individual's private, albeit temporary, retreat from the demands of public life.

Richard went to his room. Everything

A quiet secluded life in the country with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor—such is my idea of happiness.

The seclusion of Spinoza's life was necessitated by intense labour and intellectual discipline, and his frugality expressed independence of spirit rather than meanness or self-concern. The strength of Spinoza's social feelings, and his Aristotelian emphasis on friendship as a necessary human good, are abundantly shown in the Ethics.

While this resulted largely from his aversion to publicity, it also stemmed from his residing in Cleveland.

house. Out of sight, out of mind. That was the way he wanted it. He crossed the shoulder and leaned on his mailbox, watching

These guys hadn't mixed with the public since they took the bus up the Hudson to start their plebe year at the Point.

I must be shutting up like a telescope.

Those who came from internment camps in Belgium told how they had been transported across France in sealed cars. No one had paid any attention to the trains and the occupants had been left without food or water. Their Belgian guards had robbed them of everything they possessed.

My library was to me an utterly private space that both enclosed and mirrored me.

Je me rendis compte que personne - pas même mon père, assis à quelques pas de moi - ne pouvait pénétrer mon espace de lecture, distinguer ce que le livre m'expliquait avec impudeur, et que rien, sinon ma propre volonté, ne pouvait en donner à quiconque la possibilité.

Perhaps, in the future, when machines have attained to a state of perfection—for I confess that I am, like Godwin and Shelley, a believer in perfectibility, the perfectibility of machinery—then, perhaps, it will be possible for those who, like myself, desire it, to live in a dignified seclusion, surrounded by the delicate attentions of silent and graceful machines, and entirely secure from any human intrusion.

There are no major cities or resorts

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

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

I've never had a very great public life.