“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.” — Anthony Liccione 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
“Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.” — Heather James 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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. — Quintilian 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
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
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
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
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
“You must cease concerning yourself with the dialects of Buddhism and instead learn how to look into your own mind in seclusion.” — Roshi P. Kapleau 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
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
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“In total seclusion, enlightening, I found the origin of my being.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann 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
“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
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
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
