“Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.” — Heather James Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
“He’s only ever wanted solace. To thrive in the crevices of existence, slip into the dark cracks of life and avoid the… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.” — Anthony Liccione 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
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“In total seclusion, enlightening, I found the origin of my being.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty… — Charles Dickens 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
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. — Horace 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
This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as… — Georgiana Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller 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
I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no… — Tertullian 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
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore de Balzac 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
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
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
“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
