Seclusion Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target…
— Felix Adler
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
— Quintilian
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What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Seclusion is the price of greatness.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
— Henri Nouwen
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue…
— William Booth
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We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much…
— Greg Kramer
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The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences
— Nikola Tesla
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You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too.…
— Susanna Kaysen
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As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place…
— Michel de Montaigne
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
— Agnetha Faltskog
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If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a…
— Seneca the Younger
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HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and…
— Charles E. Burchfield
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What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy.…
— Roger Ebert
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
— James D. Watson
Who Wrote These Seclusion Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 31 Seclusion Quotes, led by these top contributors: