Quotes About Reclusion

Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with a frog in it. It never occurred to Arredondo to think that the frog's time, which borders on eternity, was what he himself sought.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

I'm actually shy and my salvation is coming home and being normal.

But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Withdrawal to the desert is called anachoresis in Greek.

Una vida tranquila de reclusión en el campo, con la posibilidad de ser útil a aquellas personas a quienes es fácil hacer el bien y que no están acostumbradas a que nadie se preocupe por ellas. Después trabajar, con la esperanza de que sirva para algo; luego el descanso, la naturaleza, los libros, la música, el amor al prójimo… En eso consiste mi idea de la felicidad.

The house was closed up and empty. Locked doors, shaded windows, no broken glass. No burglars, no squatters. No feral Rose Sanderson, going to earth in a place she remembered.

Please do not have a band, as I do not care for music.

Mr. Bebee had lost every one, and had consumed in solitude the tea-basket which he had brought up as a pleasant surprise.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

I could just sit here, peacefully. I could withdraw. It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.

I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

Unless the movie is about to release, I don't like to be in the limelight. Then I have no choice, but after that you have to get back.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

Mots exagérés pour dire qu'il est des réclusions mineures où l'on passe finalement un temps très long avant de s'en libérer. Car c'est bien un acte de volonté subit qui décide du terme et l'on se demande pourquoi on ne s'en est pas délivré plus tôt.

I left the lunatic sitting on his bed with his out-of-date newspaper and his up-to-date speeches.