Alfred Eisenstaedt Quotes

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

Hide me from day's garish eye.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

I want to be invisible.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

Perfect security means nobody’s there at all.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

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.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.