“The most difficult thing to be in a world so loud is a person so quiet.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse. — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s. — Donovan Copy Share Image
The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag 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
No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses… — Margaret Truman Daniel Copy Share Image
“More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse -… — Alessandra Torresani Copy Share Image
You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“now it’s computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on… — Dave Gahan 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
As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In a recluse, the most irrevocable, lifelong rejection of the world often has as its basis an uncontrolled passion for the crowd,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“The Just and the unJust inhabiting the same body, so close you can’t pry us apart, but we are not friends. He… — Ward Just Copy Share Image
Noticed myself spending more and more time sat by myself being a recluse. — Danny Worsnop Copy Share Image
I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Noticed myself spending more and more time sat by myself being in recluse. — Danny Worsnop Copy Share Image
