Mental Seclusion Quotes

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.