Top 44 Reclusive Quotes

I have a somewhat reclusive quality myself, and actually what’s great about New York is that it pushes you to be social because the streets are full of people.

I’m far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don’t go to a lot of events, and I’m not out in public all the time doesn’t mean I’m anti-social or a recluse.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Moving gave me confidence. I was really reclusive when I first moved. I stayed home a lot or went to shows alone. But by the second semester of my freshman year, I started making friends.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Just in the last week of his life, you could have seen him at Walgreens or at the Electric Fetus, where he often shopped for records – an astonishing sight, like the Mona Lisa taking in her own portrait at the Louvre. Prince, paradoxically, was reclusive but always around.

As a director, nobody told me I’d be talking to people all day. I’m naturally reclusive – I feel myself peek out at a certain point and go, ‘All the extrovert in me is done! I’m on reserve!’

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I’m some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It’s all me.

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this person who was reclusive, or hiding.

It’s a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It’s not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

I am such a reclusive person that, literally, when I am done shooting, at some level I sort of disassociate myself, and I get back to reading my books.

I’m a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

Back in the ’80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

I’m not very social when I’m off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It’s very reclusive.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

I actually don’t read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I’m still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn’t have to talk to press.

I’m not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.

I’m not reclusive. I’m out and about.

It’s funny because everyone says, ‘Oh you’re reclusive; you don’t do social media,’ but it’s not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that’s purposeful.

Big Brother’ has put me off people. I thought, ‘I’m gonna get a dog.’ I really think I’m going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

I’m a reclusive weirdo.

I’m not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark – without charging anyone with a crime.

People have all sorts of expectations which you can’t meet. Me, I’m so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

You know why they think I’m reclusive? I don’t do the Hollywood stuff. I’ve never been on the circuit.

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases – any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven’t been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I’m shocked at how reclusive I’ve been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

I’m afraid I’m still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels.

I become absolutely reclusive when I’m not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.

I’m pretty reclusive. I’m a homebody.

My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can’t imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the ’80s.

I’m reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

At the end of the 18th century, a young British explorer named George Bogle became one of the first Westerners to penetrate the mysterious and reclusive realm of Druk Yul, or ‘Dragon Land.’