The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“In total seclusion, enlightening, I found the origin of my being.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. — Horace Copy Share Image
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I sat in a box With walls on each side. Not too tall. Not too wide. To think. To ponder. To pray.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all… — John Braine Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds,… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In… — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.” — Heather James Copy Share Image
Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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