Shutting Myself Away Quotes

#1. I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. ...only extroverts cry twice..

John Fowles

#3. Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Peter Tork

#4. L am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#5. What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.

The Bhagavad Gita

#7. And Morwen lost control.
A quick bite and deep, and a flap of skin fell in her throat, sweet and juicy. Galadir pushed her away with all his might, backing away. Morwen put her hand over her mouth, shutting her eyes.

Chiara Cilli

#8. Will whistled quietly. 'She sounds fantastic. But I can't imagine why she'd be interested in your dick. With that tiny thing you'll never be half the man your Mother is.',

Christina Lauren

#9. I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#10. There's more to life than cause and effect.

Amy Zhang

#11. He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

Mary Renault

#12. Shutting your heart away and letting bitterness and emptiness rule. Pretending that decay is to be celebrated, and ignoring everything that really matters. Don't you feel yourself disintegrating when you're around them? Feel as if you're getting sucked into their swamp of narcissism and hatred?

Lili Wilkinson

#13. At midnight, Cinderella ran away from the ball, leaving behind glass slipper. The doors swing slowly close behind, shutting out the sound of the party, and I realize I've lost something far more important than a shoe. I've lost my best friend.

Donna Cooner

#14. For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

Shelley Berman

#16. 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

#17. Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous.

Saahil Prem

#19. As I think about anyone or anything
whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film
as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?

June Jordan

#20. It was simpler in those days. We could say they'd died for their country. We didn't have to tell them the details; they didn't expect that.

John Le Carre

#21. I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.

Ricky Ponting

#22. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

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

Lauren Henderson