Recluse Quotes
Recluse Quote of the day
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.
When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.
I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.
Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.
...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group