Self-imposed Seclusion Quotes

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what you're going to say. Different kinds of solitude. Enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'Quite,' said Viktoria. 'There's no need to go into it further. But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

. . . 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 . . .

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.