Quotes About Retreat

I can go somewhere and switch off completely. I will let people know in advance that I'm away, but once I'm out of contact, I'm out of contact. That's it.

He had retreated into a silent movie of his own making and I was watching from the anonymous remove of a theater seat. He was flickering, growing distant, fading like the '82 Latour.

When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else." (Death of a Doxie)

But for anyone who is fed up with people and noise, the favorite spot could be Lily Rowan's cabin clearing. I admit there is a little noise, Berry Creek making a fuss about the rocks that won't move, but after a couple of days you hear it only when you want to.

Like a fox being chased by the hounds, she needed a bolthole in which to lick her wounds.

LAST HAVEN TAVERN.

There is a silence, a truce; the old earth-gods retreat, sullen, beaten and disconsolate; London has beaten them, swallowed, engulfed their territory, crushing their flowers into mud.

But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History Museum, and to the embrace of the trilobites.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

Unless we find the communal meaning and significance of the suffering of all life and ecosystems on our planet, we will continue to retreat into our individual, small worlds in our quest for personal safety and sanity. Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that.

I read some good books that summer, along with a great many bad ones, and I liked them all. Off in my own retreat and my own world

A quick getaway,' she said, shucking

Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world.

We need a place, she said, just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it.

Poate toÈ›i cei de la Hailsham aveam asemenea secrete - mici cotloane de spaÈ›iu, care existau doar în mintea noastr? È™i în care ne puteam retrage cu fricile È™i dorinÈ›ele noastre.

Grigori não conseguiu se forçar a acenar de volta. Virou as costas e foi embora.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn't have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.

En verdad es posible ser tan desdichado, estar tan aislado como para no tener un refugio para apartarse y esconderse de la gente

une grande bibliothéque en merisier investit toute une aile . C'était notre coin intime;notre retraite dorée. Nous y venions parfois communier avec nos silences et recycler nos sens émoussés par les bruits de tous les jours. Nous prenions un livre ou mettions une musique ,et nous voilà partis . Nous lisions aussi bien que Kafka que Khalil Gibran et écoutions avec la méme gratitude Oum Kalsoum et ou Pavarotti..