Quotes About Retreat

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

the conceptual breakthrough, if any, is the ability to call a retreat and declare victory at the same time.

Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.

He tried to sniff with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly. Every advance on his part was accompanied by a corresponding retreat on her part. Step by step she was luring him away from the security of his human companionship

retrogression)

I am infinitely saddened to find myself suddenly surrounded in the west by a sense of terrible loss of nerve, a retreat from knowledge into–into what? Into Zen Buddhism; into falsely profound questions … into extrasensory perception and mystery. They do not lie along the line of what we are now able to know if we devote ourselves to it: an understanding of man himself.

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

Every man needs a place to go to.

This grace of light has been given to me during my retreat. Our Lord desires that we should receive Him into our hearts, and no doubt they are empty of creatures. Alas! mine is not empty of self; that is why He bids me come down. And I shall come down even to the very ground, that Jesus may find within my heart a resting-place for His Divine Head

What I really spend money on is finding a nice place to stay near the sea.

It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the wold until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

I'd begun to grow weary of my constant daydreaming because, as I retreated more often into fantasy, it had become a reminder of my growing discontent with real life. And my thoughts, after very little sleep, seemed to float even further into the realm of the superfluous.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

our cabin in the woods in Clare.

Home is sanctuary.

She could slip into the storeroom from there for the belated alone.

Masticando il suo tabacco, il Mezzano ha sputato sulla moquette macchiata e ha detto che questo edificio umido, queste stanze semibuie, non avevano nulla a che vedere con il ritiro per scrittori che si era immaginato: gente che scrive a mano, con lo sguardo che si perde lungo prati verdi on-dulati; scrittori che mangiano pranzi al sacco, ciascuno nel suo chalet privato. Frutteti di albicocchi e nuvole di petali bianchi sollevati dal vento. Sonnellini pomeridiani all'ombra di castagni. Croquet.