Quotes about Seclusion
Be good and you will be lonely.
- Mark Twain
To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught
- Oswald Chambers
When you arrive, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his companions, and take him to an inner room.
- 2 Kings 9:2
How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
- Psalm 55:7
ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
- Psalm 64:4
After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
- Luke 1:24
Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
- Holly Hunter
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
- Herman Melville
Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
- Virginia Woolf
Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift as lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and behold, literature was an elderly gentleman in a grey suit talking about duchesses.
- Virginia Woolf
in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .
- Charles Dickens
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti