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

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". 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 Martínez

  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 no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace.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.

  Tertuliano

  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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• Necesito estar solo. Necesito meditar sobre mi vergüenza y mi desesperación en reclusión; necesito el sol y los adoquines de las calles sin compañía, sin conversación, cara a cara conmigo mismo, con la única compañía de la música de mi corazón.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Silence

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Hay días en que la soledad, para alguien de mi edad, es un vino embriagador que te embriaga de libertad, otros en que es un tónico amargo, y otros en que es un veneno que te hace golpearte la cabeza contra la pared.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wall, Being Alone, Wine

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

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• Algunas personas prefieren la soledad. Dicen que de ello depende su tranquilidad. Otros dicen que estarían mejor en la iglesia. Si te va bien, te va bien estés donde estés. Si fracasas, fracasas estés donde estés. Tu entorno no importa. Dios está contigo en todas partes, tanto en el mercado como en la soledad o en la iglesia. Si no buscas nada más que a Dios, nada ni nadie podrá perturbarte. Dios no se distrae con una multitud de cosas. Nosotros tampoco.

  Meister Eckhart

  Espiritual, Personas, Soledad

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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

  Espiritual, Jesús, Corazón

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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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• El Sr. Tulkinghorn, sentado en la penumbra junto a la ventana abierta, disfruta de su vino. Como si le susurrara sus cincuenta años de silencio y reclusión, le encierra aún más. Más impenetrable que nunca, se sienta, y bebe, y se apacigua como en secreto, reflexionando a esa hora crepuscular sobre todos los misterios que conoce.

  Charles Dickens

  Crepúsculo, Vino, Carácter

  Charles Dickens (1858). "Bleak House ... Con frontispicio de H. K. Browne", p.180

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• Ninguna sociedad antialcohólica que esté bien organizada y que tenga en mente el verdadero bien de nuestros semejantes, se emborrachará jamás si no es en el retiro de su salón antialcohólico.

  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.

  Federico 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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• Soy un hombre libre y necesito mi libertad. Necesito estar solo. Necesito meditar sobre mi vergüenza y mi desesperación en reclusión; necesito el sol y los adoquines de las calles sin compañía, sin conversación, cara a cara conmigo mismo, con la única compañía de la música de mi corazón. ¿Qué quieres de mí? Cuando tengo algo que decir, lo escribo. Cuando tengo algo que dar, lo doy. Su curiosidad me revuelve el estómago. Tus cumplidos me humillan. Su té me envenena. No le debo nada a nadie. Sólo sería responsable ante Dios, si existiera.

  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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• No hay que dar por sentado que el cristiano tiene el privilegio de vivir entre otros cristianos. Jesucristo vivió en medio de sus enemigos.
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  Así pues, el cristiano no debe vivir en el aislamiento de una vida enclaustrada, sino en medio de sus enemigos. Ahí está su misión, su trabajo.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Cristiano, Jesús, Tomado

  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

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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