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Best 140 Private Life Quotes

Private Life Quotes

This post contains some of the best Private Life Quotes.

Private Life Quotes

1. “… No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.”- Charles Dickens

2. “3 things to keep private: Your love life. Your income. Your next move.” – Unknown

3. “A private life is a happy life.” – Unknown

4. “A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of public Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.”- William Penn

5. “A private relationship means nobody knows y’all business but everybody knows y’all together, don’t get it confused.” – Unknown

6. “A relationship is between you and the person you’re with. Stop letting outsiders plant their opinions in something they’re not involved in. Focus on the person you’re with, not the people trying to tear y’all apart.”

7. “A relationship should be between two people, not the whole world.” – Unknown

8. “All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. “Always be lenient with people and keep their privacy, as they can share their problems with you. These steps can help you in making your relationship strong.” ― Faisal Nawaz Maitlo

10. “Always keep your love life, bank account and next move private.” – Unknown

11. “Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unnecessary as when you were alone.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

12. “Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I’m not a very adventurous person. I don’t look for change.” – Namie Amuro

13. “At any case, you shall not judge my privacy and my private life.” ― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

14. “Celebrity damages private life.” — Tim Berners-Lee

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15. “Date, in private. Love, in private. Be happy, in private. That way, you can take your losses, in private. Maintain, in private. Rebuild yourself, in private.”

16. “Don’t be in a relationship if you are going to act single.”- Sushan R Sharma

17. “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.” ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

18. “First of all, I’m pretty private about my personal life.” – Pat Benatar

19. “For a longer and healthier relationship, you need to understand the difference between secrecy and privacy in a relationship.” – Unknown

20. “For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.”- Chelsea Clinton

21. “Getting a lot of girls isn’t something to be proud of, keeping one is.” – Unknown

22. “Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.” – Criss Jami

23. “Having enough space or privacy in a relationship is more important for a couple’s happiness than having a good sex life.” – Dr Terri Orbuch

24. “He wondered now if everyone had a private life. He wondered if his wife had one. It was possible that all those years he had been alone, never knowing that a complete world existed and no one spoke of it.” ― Ann Patchett

25. “I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don’t find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.”- Francesca Annis

26. “I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.” – Enya

27. “I am stable when my private life is a success.” – Don Johnson

28. “I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don’t prefer to talk about my family.” – Luis Miguel

29. “I believe in having a private life.”- Condoleezza Rice

30. “I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I’d rather live my private life than read about it.”- Brittany Murphy

31. “I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”- Banksy

32. “I don’t like to talk about personal things. And by keeping it private, you have a better shot at a healthy relationship. I learned at a young age that there are certain things you just don’t talk about.”- Sandra Bullock

33. “I don’t mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.” – Leona Lewis

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34. “I don’t talk about my private life.” – Marianne Faithfull

35. “I don’t think you have the right to shout about other people’s private life.” – Unknown

36. “I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.” — Banksy

37. “I don’t talk about my private life.” ― Marianne Faithfull

38. “I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.”- Jean Harris

39. “I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.” – Paul Mccartney

40. “I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.”- Vladimir Putin

41. “I have no plans to go public if I get into a relationship. I will do my best to safeguard the privacy of the person I love and respect her feelings.”- Song Joong-ki

42. “I keep my personal life private, so don’t think you know me. You know what I allow you to know.”

43. “I like to keep most of my private life private.”- Logan Mankins

44. “I like to keep my private life private for the most part.” — Bode Miller

45. “I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.”- Nina Dobrev

46. “I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.”- Chester A. Arthur

47. “I private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people’s disputes but he heartily repented of it.” – Thomas Carlyle

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48. “I think privacy is valuable. You don’t have to share everything, and it’s healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you’re oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to hide.”- Ashton Kutcher

49. “I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that’s just the best way to live.”- Angelina Jolie

50. “I try to keep my private life private.”- Jake Epstein

51. “I want a private life, I truly do. I’m not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.” – Donna Summer

52. “I want someone to sit beside after the day’s pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation, I need privacy – to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.” ― Virginia Woolf

53. “I want to keep my private life private.” – Cathy Freeman

54. “I’m a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.”- Gisele Bundchen

55. “I’m not an overly happy person. There are times when I’m happy, and that’s usually in my private life.” – Pat Burns

56. “I’m share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.”- Stephen Amell

57. “I’ve always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.” – David Gerrold

58. “I’ve learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I’ve learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.”- Ashton Kutcher

59. “If you don’t want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you’re going to be photographed?”- Marina

60. “In a world where everyone is over exposed, the coolest thing you can do is maintain your mystery.”

61. “In acting, you draw so much on your private life.” ― Emmanuelle Riva

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62. “In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.”- Stephanie Coontz

63. “It doesn’t bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn’t bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.”- Shakira

64. “It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw.” ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

65. “It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.”- Portia de Rossi

66. “It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job, she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy.” ― Rona Jaffe

67. “It’s all mine. It’s all sacred.” – Coco J. Ginger

68. “It’s called a private life for a reason – it’s mine, and it’s special and sacred.”- Lili Reinhart

69. “It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it’s kind of a sickness.”- Lauren Bacall

70. “It’s my private life, and it’s not up for grabs.”- Sam Shepard

71. “It’s nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.”- MyAnna Buring

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72. “It’s so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.” – Jorja Fox

73. “I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?” ― Grace Kelly

74. “Just because you don’t know what someone is doing in their life, doesn’t mean they aren’t doing something. Perhaps you were the nobody that they thought it wasn’t worth sharing with.” ― Niedria D. Kenny

75. “Keep it private until you know it’s permanent.” – Unknown

76. “Keep your relationship private, without keeping your partner a secret. There’s a difference between privacy and secrecy.” – Unknown

77. “Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.”- Kate Mara

78. “Knowing what to share and what not to share is an important communication skill to learn and use in relationships. It may also be something that can help or hinder peace and harmony between partners.” – Unknown

79. “Learn to keep your private life private, or they will make your life as their entertainment.” – Unknown

80. “Many people say the right thing in public because they do not want to be seen as mean. However, it is what we say in private to our best friends, supporters, and colleagues that truly forms us. It makes up our energy field and defines us. Although we think people do not know what we say and do, others do know. They often find out. And even if they don’t know the specific details, they can sense our integrity or lack of it.” ― F Donna Goddard

81. “Maybe the private life wasn’t forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.”- Ann Patchett

82. “My private is the most precious thing to me.” – Leona Lewis

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83. “My private life is my private life.” – Julie Gayet

84. “My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.” – Unknown

85. “My private life… Nobody should care. I think it’s weird.”- Alison Lohman

86. “No man should be in public office who can’t make more money in private life.”- Thomas Dewey

87. “No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.” ― Kevin Spacey

88. “Not every part of your private life needs to be public.” – Unknown

89. “Not having a private life is hard.”- Amber Riley

90. “Nothing good ever comes from too many people knowing your business. Being private and low key is the best way to be.” – Unknown

91. “Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone’s got a free range for you.”- Jason Statham

92. “Only a few people care. The rest are just curious.” – Unknown

93. “Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.”- Susan Sontag

94. “People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.” – Paulo Coelho

95. “People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you’re trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.” ― Cindy Sherman

96. “People don’t know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.” — Catherine Deneuve

97. “People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.” ― Samuel Johnson

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98. “Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.”- Willa Cather

99. “Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

100. “Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from the straight line.”- Robert E. Lee

101. “Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.”- Arsene Wenger

102. “Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”- Annie Dillard

103. “Private lives are more important than public reputations.”- G.K. Chesterton

104. “Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”- Mahatma Gandhi

105. “Recognizing each other’s rights to privacy isn’t only necessary for our own personal sanity and happiness, but it’s a key component to maintaining the health of our relationships as well. The fewer opportunities we give our imaginations to play games on us, the better everything is.”

106. “Relationships last longer when everybody doesn’t know your business.” – Unknown

107. “Relationships work best when two people work collaboratively to manage their boundaries around privacy. They thrive when partners feel invested in each other feeling safe, supported, and accepted – even when they need different amounts of intimacy and privacy.” – Unknown

108. “RelationSHIPS’ sinks when they have too many passengers.” – Unknown

109. “Social media has created jealous behavior over illusions. Sadly some are envious of things, relationships and lifestyles that don’t even exists.” – Unknown

110. “Social networks don’t break up relationship. The shit you post on social networks breaks up relationship!” – Unknown

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111. “Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.” – Amy Lane

112. “Stay low key. Not everyone needs to know everything about you.” – Unknown

113. “Stop taking your private matters to public platforms. Don’t complain about people being all in your relationship, when you’re personally sending out the invitations.” – Unknown

114. “The amount of impact people let social media have on their relationships is ridiculous! Have some privacy and be different, not everything has to be social media goals.” – Unknown

115. “The best parts of my life don’t make it to social media.” – Unknown

116. “The best person to talk to about the problems in your relationship is the person you’re in the relationship with.” – Unknown

117. “The best sign of a healthy relationship is no sign of it on Facebook.” – Unknown

118. “The fact that you’re in a relationship or married to someone doesn’t mean you should reap them off of their privacy. Respect boundaries and enjoy the bliss of quality relationships.” – Unknown

119. “The less people know about you, the less they can say about you. Keep your private life private and there won’t be any drama.” – Unknown

120. “The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.” — Kevin McCloud

121. “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”- Anais Nin

122. “The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.” – Harry A Blackmun

123. “The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.”- Joan Collins

124. “The secret to having a healthy relationship is… PRIVACY.” – Unknown

125. “The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.”- Tacitus

126. “There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.” – Karrine Steffans

127. “There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don’t discuss my private life.”- Aaliyah

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128. “There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.” — George Eliot

129. “To be honest, I’m a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend’s photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity… that’s sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.” — Song Joong-ki

130. “Wearing a mask can thus be a strange thing: sometimes, more often than we tend to believe, there is more truth in the mask that in what we assume to be our ‘real self.'” ― Slavoj Žižek

131. “What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn’t be anybody else’s business.”- Rob Lowe

132. “When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don’t discuss that.”- Imogen Cunningham

133. “When we keep private matters to ourself, then we never have to worry about unwanted voices discussing these matters when we’re not listening.” ― Ron Baratono

134. “When you are happy with someone in private, you don’t need to prove it on social media.” – Unknown

135. “When you keep your relationship private, you close it off to the superficial and open it up to the kind of substantial benefits that can only grow between two people.” – Unknown

136. “When you trust your partner, you are giving them privacy. You give them this not because it is the law, or because you have to, but because you trust that they are not hiding anything from you.” – Unknown

137. “Women have a lot of power in private life.” – Dee Dee Myers

138. “You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don’t expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.” – T.D. Jakes

139. “You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don’t have one. It just gets to you after a while. It’s tough.”- John Carpenter

140. “Your private life is your private life, and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.” — Jay Kay

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