Private Quotes

“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all the fat stores from my butt now. Yeah. See, having a big ass is a good thing. Good, good, good. They should put that in magazines. Why diet? Why stay thin? If you ever get kidnapped and left for dead, your fat ass could save your life!”
― Kate Brian, Suspicion

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
― Queen Elizabeth I, Letters

“Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Magic

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If I love you, is that any of your business?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe." - Noelle”
― Kate Brian, Private

“The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.”
― Richard Rodriguez

“Unfortunately, I had a feeling I would never get to my bed as the vacuuming would strike me dead of an aneurysm. Death by Dyson." - Reed”
― Kate Brian, Invitation Only

“Social distancing is staying away from people not from your purpose.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Your soul feels lonely not when you lack company, but when you lack the cause.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We have learned about some people from their social media feeds way more than their families have learned from years of living with them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In isolation you just lose the company but don't lose the purpose.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

“Like flocks of small dark birds,
hidden parts of the self weep”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is hymen before it is broken.”
― Khalid Masood

“Exams make the students tired and exam-duties make the teachers exhausted. So, there should be an official vacation for at least 15 days after the end of mid-term & final exams in private universities so that the students and teachers can relax and freshen themselves up!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Private like, this is cool stuff, and I should let my cousin in on it, kind of private?” Gunnar asked, “or, private like, I wet my pants, and I’m hiding the evidence, kind of private?”
― Justin Swapp, The Shadow's Servant

“Keep it private until you know it is permanent.”
― Nitya Prakash

“She lived in private with her own horror.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“My friendships are my privacy. My love life is my privacy. My health life is my privacy. My enemies are my privacy. My favourite is my privacy. My thinking is my privacy. If I show you what they're like then you're chosen.”
― Glad Munaiseche

“Family members can find their siblings incomprehensible because they assume that given their genetic and environmental commonality their siblings should comport themselves in a similar manner. Although we each know all the key events of one another lives, being siblings still allows for a chasm of unknown, misinterpretation, and misunderstanding. We all need a degree of privacy and that we only share with other people including esteemed family members select parts of ourselves. We each hold back revealing part of ourselves, but most of us are uncomfortable if we think other people and especially our spouses or close family members harbor furtive thoughts.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Whatever you are in private matters less than what you are in public, though to have mastery over both arenas is preferable.”
― Jennifer Bradbury, Wrapped

“Maybe to save money, many people do not paint the outer walls of the private and public buildings. The city will appear clean and fine-looking if the exterior of all the houses are painted. So, regularly paint your houses and make your city and country beautiful!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“The warily silent Hughes has protected his secrets better than his sister has: no one can use his words against him. But everyone can—and does—speculate about his motives.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“I feel alive in ghost mode.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“As so often is the case, the public hero that others admire can leave quite a trail of private hurt in his wake.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn