Top 80 Recluse Quotes & Sayings

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.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

I wasn't a nerd or a recluse, but I didn't grow up too fast.

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

I'm kind of a recluse.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.

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.

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

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

"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".

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

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.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

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.

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew.

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

I have always been a recluse, but 'Bigg Boss' was one place I could share with the country the person I am.

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

I'm a quiet person. It's only when I am cued to talk that I talk. Otherwise, I'm reserved and a bit of 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.

I was pretty dorky in high school. I was pretty much of a recluse.

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'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.

A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.

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.

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

I'm not like a total recluse who lives in the woods or anything.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

He can't have any friends and maintain his secret identity as Spider-Man. He can't even have a normal sex life. He's a national hero, yet he's a recluse. He's instantly recognized by the public, but he cant tell anyone who he is.