Reclusion Quotes

I have a life of sacrifice. I don't have a normal social life.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I just want to be left alone.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.

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

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

When a movie comes out, I always go off on a beach so I miss all the craziness that goes on, all the hoopla, and the hype and the success, and how much it's making, or whether it's doing good or whether it's doing bad. I just miss it all. I don't talk to anybody, and a couple weeks later I come back and it's all over with.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

I faded away for a while out of necessity.

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.

It's lonely up here.

... unspeakably lonely.

I feel like I just wanna go back to being more underground.

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

There are days when solitude 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.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.