Seclusion

Seclusion

The act of secluding, i.e. shutting out or keeping apart from society, or the state of being secluded, or a place that facilitates it (a secluded place). A person, a couple, or a larger group may go to a secluded place for privacy, or because the place is quiet. Seclusion of a single person is also called solitude.

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Famous quotes containing the word seclusion:

    “A man’s thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)