The Howard Hughes thing hadn’t actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.

~ Heidi Betts

Heidi Betts Depression Ex Humor Jock Recluse Romance

I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Fear Fearful Hiding Imprisonment Incarcerate Incarceration Isolate Isolation Lock Panic Prison Protect Protection Recluse Retreat Seclude Shelter Withdraw Withdrawn World

Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that’s not a good thing!

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Rebecca Mcnutt Bad Fantasy Fantasy World Good Imagination Mental Illness Psychology Recluse World

Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes a recluse to the tower of the castle and begins to build something behind closed doors, not even his daughter knows what he’s up to. For five years, she only sees him briefly at meal-times before locking himself up in the tower once again......Did he have a bathroom in the tower?Yes, Jack. A big one! En-suite! Power-shower and spa! Where was I!?

~ Jonathan Dunne

Jonathan Dunne Bathroom Behind Closed Doors Bereavment Castle Clock Clockmaker Death Funny Grief Hilarious Loss Mourn Mourning Potty Potty Time Power Recluse Sarcasm Shower Spa Toilet Weird

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Avoid Expect Expectations Listen Listening Meditation Recluse Silence Solitude Speak Speaking Talk Talking Tendency

now it’s computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike I am now.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Computers Facebook Friends Hermit Internet Iphone Iphones Recluse Social Networking Social Networks

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?

~ David Holdsworth

David Holdsworth Compassion Love Jesus The Christ Joyfulness Justice Kindness Love Story Peace Movement Priesthood Radicalism Recluse Reformation

...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

~ Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Alone Come To The Fair Isolation Loneliness Lonely Misery Outcast Recluse Solitary Solitude

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

~ Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Disclosure Life Personality Recluse Revelation Self

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

~ Luke Taylor

Luke Taylor Author Book Depth Enigma Hidden Layers Mystery Novel Onion Read Recluse Write Writer

Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Rebecca Mcnutt Author Bathrobe Books Comedy Funny Humor Recluse Slippers Stereotype Typewrter Vice Writing

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Affable Alone Amicable Anchoress Anchorite Anthropocentric Anthropocentrism Antisocial Approachable Ascetic By Oneself Chummy Cloistered Clubby Communicative Companionable Companionless Convivial Cordial Eremite Extrovert Forthcoming Friendless Friendly Genial Gregarious Hail Fellow Well Met Hermit Hermitic Incommunicado Introvert Isolate Isolation Lone Wolf Lonely Loner Lonesome Marabout Misanthrope Misanthropy On One S Own Open Outgoing Recluse Reclusive Responsive Seclude Secluded Sociable Solitarian Solitary Solitudinarian Troglodyte Unaccompanied Unsociable Warm Withdrawn

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Hunchback Of Notre Dame Mother Recluse

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the internal integrity and equilibrium of my mind; that will be in which the manor in which I recover the purity of the original act; I shall be my own citadel, and to it I shall retire to protect myself against a hostile and corrupt world. I shall be my own citadel and, within it, my own and only citizen.

~ Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Idealism Introversion Madness Recluse