Being A Recluse Quotes & Sayings

Once their gaze turned back toward Europe, the puzzle dissolved: West Germany was the obvious equivalent and, indeed, a splendid candidate for the role of the global plan's European shock-absorbing pillar - certainly not Britain. — Yanis Varoufakis

I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse. — Kirk Kerkorian

Part of the attraction of The L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. I had read Arthur Machen before I read Lovecraft, and I didn't have that reaction at all. It was what I sensed in Lovecraft's works and what I learned about his myth as the "recluse of Providence" that made me think, "That's for me!" I already had a grim view of existence, so there was no problem there. I was and am agoraphobic, so being reclusive was a snap. The only challenge was whether or not I could actually write horror stories. So I studied fiction writing and wrote every day for years and years until I started to get my stories accepted by small press magazines. I'm not comparing myself to Lovecraft as a person or as a writer, but the rough outline of his life gave me something to aspire to. I don't know what would have become of me if I hadn't discovered Lovecraft. — Thomas Ligotti

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. — Walker Percy

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness. — Richard Sibbes

When Michael pulled away, Eva was beyond shocked to see tears in his eyes.
I told myself I would be strong, that I would let you go if you wished it, but I cannot. Stay with me, Eva. Don't leave me. — Rosalie Lario

And sometimes when you lie to me Sometimes I'll lie to you And there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Aren't as bad as they seem But now I see blood and I hear people scream Then I wake up And it's just another bad dream . . . — Michael Grant

Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them. — George Gordon Byron

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you. — Lauren Oliver

Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination to live according to the Spirit of God. Just as salvation of the world is by the Cross of God, so our salvation is by our crucifixion on our own cross. — Theophan The Recluse

If you only knew the beauty of who you are, would beg for more light to illuminate every corner of yourself — Ross Hostetter

At times, one of man's greater needs is freedom from himself, and this freedom is likely to be increasingly threatened by population and economic pressures, by dogmas of organizations exalting power and bigness, and by old ideas that Nature exists only to be conquered. The trapper or the ex-trapper or the frank recluse is not alone in needing, on occasion, freedom from man to escape being psychologically overwhelmed by Man as a mass phenomenon. — Paul Errington

I don't mind being a recluse, really. It seems the extroverts are always talking. — Iimani David

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. — Alice James

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. — Adlai E. Stevenson

I'm a huge fan of just keeping a healthy lifestyle. For your body but for your mind, also. — Julianne Hough

Forty years of emphasizing accounting-style control over things has seen American businesses do little or nothing to develop the capabilities of people. Workers have been viewed as a source of energy and cost, not as a source of ideas. — H. Thomas Johnson

She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in bed. — Helen Oyeyemi

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something. — Anthony Jeselnik

I've always considered myself to be similar. I'm no recluse, but, like an introvert, I need a lot of time alone to reflect and recharge, and I am easily drained by being around others, but at the same time, like an extrovert, I'm energized by parties and conversation. — Kate Bolick

A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome. — Nathaniel Hawthorne