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:

    “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)

    “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)