Recluse Quotes - Page 2

• I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

  Elisha

  Spiders, Canada, Kind

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• I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

  Trevor Dunn

  Bird, Lizards, Swimmer

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• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mind, Criticism, Impression

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Life, Regret, Sky

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

  Ben Daniels

  Mountain, Intense, Social

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

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• In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Regret, Cells, Secret

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

  Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

  God, Spiritual, Single Mom

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• I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

  Julian Casablancas

  Lazy, Illusion

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• As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reading, People, Dry

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Passion

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

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• This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

  Alexei Panshin

  Fun, Thinking, Numbers

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• Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Ideas, Communicate, Sentiments

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.844, Modern Library

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• In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

  Roger Scruton

  Philosophy, Mad, Half

  Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.8, A&C Black

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• I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed online. I met my first boyfriend online at 15, which culminated in me running away to San Francisco to be with him.

  Marie Calloway

  Running, San Francisco, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Hug, Want

  Source: bukowski.net

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• Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.

  Sam Pressman

  Art, Character, Ego

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Doors, Musical

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in the Hills where I didn't see real life. You know what I mean? I'm not still living in Brooklyn, but I'm still living in the street. I go out by myself, I don't go out with a million body guards, I run my own errands.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Running, Real, Mean

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Writing, Prose Poetry

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• The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

  Samuel Parr

  Triumph, Excess, Austerity

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• Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

  Chris Lowe

  Mean, People, Trying

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• Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Giving, Ignorant, Mind

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.118, 谷月社

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• I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wisdom

  "The Senator's Humble Beginning" by Mark Leibovich, www.washingtonpost.com. February 24, 2005.

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• The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Thinking, Earth, Mysterious Woman

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

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• You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

  Will Durst

  Dream, Ideas, America

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