Secluded Quotes - Page 2

• Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

  Vanna Bonta

  Flower, Heart, Woods

  "Rewards of Passion: Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

  Franka Potente

  Country, Kings, Symbolism

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

  Michael Cera

  Talking, Ideas, Age

  "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Block, Voice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.907, Simon and Schuster

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• And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

  Will Durant

  Men, Fire, Light

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

  Rumi

  Heart, Silence, House

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• In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Strong, Sleep, Dust

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 404), 1967.

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• I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Support, Comedy

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• I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Ideas, Want, Farms

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• What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

  John Donne

  Marriage, Sight, Tickling

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.320, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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• What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

  Truman Capote

  Reality, Mentor, Fantastic

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• Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Ego, Culture

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• We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, 'No.' We can go to a secluded spot and chant our mantra. The mind will become quiet by itself.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Loss, Forgive And Forget

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• You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

  Andrea Corr

  People, World, Normal

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• This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

  Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

  Men, Comfort, World

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• I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

  Anwar Sadat

  Reality, Intellectual, Taught

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pressure Groups, Circles, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Careers, Appreciate, Loner

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• Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, Imagination, House

  "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Curves, Ideas

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• The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Peace, Wall, Log Cabins

  Gustav Stickley (1912). “More Craftsman Homes: Floor Plans and Illustrations for 78 Mission Style Dwellings”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Song, Hate, Naked

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• As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

  Michael Faraday

  Self, Order, Owl

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Men, Race, Long

  Epitaph on his grave in Lancaster, Pensylvania,

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