Seclusion Quotes

• Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

  

  Charles E. Burchfield
  • Spaces
  • Skies
  • Seclusion

• I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

  

  Monica Vitti
  • Power
  • Brothers
  • Strict

• . . . 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
  • Minds
  • Influences
  • Reverse

• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tree
  • Prove
  • Ancient

• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Majority
  • Seclusion

• The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Civilization
  • Charms
  • Conveniences

• The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Woman