Quotes about Seclusion
Be good and you will be lonely.
— Mark Twain
How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
— Psalm 55:7
ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
— Psalm 64:4
To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught
— Oswald Chambers
When you arrive, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his companions, and take him to an inner room.
— 2 Kings 9:2
After these days, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
— Luke 1:24
Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.
— Frank Herbert
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
— Marilyn Monroe
He went on to praise the company they had just left, declaring that he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of surrendering them.
— Edith Wharton
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
— John Donne
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 . . .
— Charles Dickens