Seclusion Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Connections, Needs, Strange

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

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• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Powerful, Being Alone, Creativity

  "East, west" by Alan Rafferty, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2003.

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• I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

  Cliff Martinez

  Band, Behind The Scenes, Kind

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

  Tertullian

  Kings, Judging, Soldier

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• Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

  Horace

  Vain, Cradle, Graves

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• I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Silence

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wall, Being Alone, Wine

  "Freedom". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1908.

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• Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, People, Solitude

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• I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Taken, Eye

  Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.39, Canongate Books

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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. No seclusion. No sin.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Responsibility, Age

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.657, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

  Javad Alizadeh

  Self, Political, Solitude

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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 to us there, to free us from our fears, and to make our own deepest self known to us Each time you let the love of God penetrate deeper into your heart it leads to a love of ourselves that enables us to give whole-hearted love to our fellow human beings. In the seclusion of our hearts we learn to know the hidden presence of God; and with that spiritual knowledge we can lead a loving life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

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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

  Christian, Foe, Thick

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.

  Georgiana Burne-Jones

  Wall, Selfish, Artist

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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 of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly.

  Greg Kramer

  Pain, Commitment, Practice

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• Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

  Charles Dickens

  Twilight, Wine, Character

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Bleak House ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.180

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• No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Drinking, Men

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• Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Class, Desire

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• Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Moving, Buddhism

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• Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Lakes, Sea

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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. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Glasses, Doors, Cake

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.46, Vintage

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

  Helene Hanff

  Girl, Princess, Eye

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• It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies.
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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

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Hands, Able

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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