I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Being nervous. Having anxiety. Stuttering. Autism. When you have any of those, at some point, you're forced to spend most of your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think. — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I have always been a recluse, but 'Bigg Boss' was one place I could share with the country the person I am. — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private,… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be… — Amber Le Bon Copy Share Image
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“He lived like a recluse, and she wanted to seclude herself with him. But the world would intrude and demand its due.” — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew. — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
