Quotes About Shutting Yourself Off From The World

#1. The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#2. By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling ... But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

Daniel Keyes

#3. If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.

Steve Hanke

#4. There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Bill Condon

#5. I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Socrates

#6. Aridea quite often turned to the Mirror - ' 'With the usual question, I take it,' interrupted Geralt. '"Who is the fairest of them all?" I know; all Nehalenia's Mirrors are either polite or broken.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#7. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.

Eben Alexander

#10. ... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world.
No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.

Asa Larsson

#11. I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Virginia Woolf

#12. You didn't mind someone shutting out the world as long as they were happy to take you inside with them.

Lauren Henderson

#13. You could help me by shutting up, Eddie said, and the grill spoke no more. He found himself wondering if he had offended it, then wondered if perhaps he should kill himself and spare the world a problem.

Stephen King

#14. If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

Gail Godwin

#15. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.

Tom Ford

#17. A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Michael Leunig

#18. For soon, the dark millenium will fall, and the world will be a different place, requiring different species. Cataracts will occlude the Sun, shutting out its hateful light, and fabulous new life-forms shall flourish and struggle beneath the perpetual stars.

Alan Moore

#19. We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

Michael Sheen

#20. The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.
And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.

Antonia Michaelis

#21. But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

Khushwant Singh

#22. Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

Richard Engel