They needed privacy.

She lives in rural seclusion.

He spent the last years of his life in seclusion.

He likes to spend some time in solitude every day.

He lived in his last years in Roela in the eastern part of Estonia.

In other words, she worked as a Sweeper .

Start thinking of solitude as a good thing.

And declared to them in public and in private,

Then I also told them publicly and also spoke to them softly in private.

then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly,

Then verily spake Unto them openly, and secretly also I addressed them.

Then verily, I proclaimed to them in public, and I have appealed to them in private,

Then I appealed to them publicly, and I spoke to them privately.

and preached to them in public, and also addressed them in secret.

And lo! I have made public proclamation unto them, and I have appealed to them in private.

It's so kind of you to visit me in my loneliness.

And now they can just do it in the intimacy of their own room.

Now in the country solitude she grew more often aware of these joys.

If the war hadn't come, I'd have spent my life happily buried at Twelve Oaks.

Sitting alone in the closed chalice he drew out his mother's letter and his brother's note and read them through.

In your solitude, you summon up everything you tend to push away in your regular daily life.

There will be no need to live in solitude one who understands the Dhamma is happy anywhere.

Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement at his estate, Kykuit, in Westchester County, New York.

Well, you know, of course, it's impermanent, but my plan is to live here until I'm 30, and then enter a hermitage.

This is a space where people would have given up their worldly possessions and traded them in for a life of prayer and solitude.

China's leaders are gathered for their annual retreat at the seaside resort of Beidaihe.

He led an isolated life after he was forced to leave Ethiopia, but corresponded regularly with newspapers inside the country.

During all this time, Ahmad was known as a social recluse because he would spend most of his time in seclusion studying religious books and praying in the local mosque.

They live this sort of boring life where they grow and divide, and they've always been considered to be these asocial reclusive organisms.

And that's what was happening with the interaction with my cousins before, and now they can just do it in the intimacy of their own room.

I spent two weeks at this retreat in my own little hut no music, no nothing, sounds of nature trying to find the essence of concentration, being in the moment.

I spent two weeks at this retreat in my own little hut no music, no nothing sounds of nature, trying to find the essence of concentration, being in the moment.

Jane McGonigal told us last year that by the time a boy is 21, he's played 10,000 hours of video games, most of that in isolation.

Call upon your Lord humbly and in secret.

I asked her how long she planned to live in the nunnery and she said, Well, you know, of course, it's impermanent, but my plan is to live here until I'm 30, and then enter a hermitage.

She ordered all the books that were praised in the foreign newspapers and magazines they received, and read them with the attention one gives only to what one reads in solitude.

Inventor Nikola Tesla spent the last ten years of his life in near seclusion in Suite 3327, where he died, largely devoting his time to feeding pigeons while occasionally meeting dignitaries.

You must certainly have that room, Alexis,' she added, having understood that Golenishchev was to be on an intimate footing with them and that there was no need to pretend in his presence.

The landowner was evidently expressing his own thoughts which people rarely do thoughts to which he had been led not by a desire to find some occupation for an idle mind, but by the conditions of his life thoughts which he had hatched in his rural solitude and considered from every side.