Convent Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

I was in a convent for a year.

— Beatrice Wood

“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation,…

— Henry James

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;

— William Wordsworth

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

— Carolyn Wheat

I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it.…

— Karen Armstrong

“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but…

— Victor Hugo

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo

There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them.…

— Doreen Virtue

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

— Victor Hugo

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

— Tenzin Palmo

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination…

— Daniel G. Opperwall