It's no longer news that the inception of the internet and social media is a huge blessing to the world.
Faster communication channels, better information dissemination, increased public reputations, and accessibility to everyone. All these and more are just a tiny fraction of what the internet and social media have done to us positively
However, these huge benefits the internet has given us have reduced the massive gap between private and public life to a thin line.
Although the fact remains that everyone is entitled to do what they wish to do as much as it's not affecting others negatively, there are still certain things about our personal lives that the world is not meant to see or know.
Most people tend to forget that grabbing attention could be a deadly business for themselves and family, so living a private life should be a priority for all.
In this article, 110 quotes by popular people regarding private life and how good being a private person are being compiled for you
General Being Private Quotes
'Private life' is a common term used in almost every workspace and every part of the world. Based on this fact, you might have heard of relatable words or quotes on private life and being private.
In the first section of this article, some general and relatable private life quotes are compiled just for you to check through, re-check and ponder.
"I’ve always been a private person and I’ve always valued my private life."
-Amber Heard.
"Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way."
-Jay Kay.
"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.
"I try to keep my private life private."
-Jake Epstein.
"Introverts know that privacy is power, they maintain a low key and stay away from people who show off."
-Unknown
"What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else`s business."
-Rob Lowe.
"I like to keep my private life private for the most part."
-Bode Miller.
"It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me."
-MyAnna Buring.
"My private life is my business."
-Roddy Llewellyn.
"There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don’t discuss my private life."
-Aaliyah.
"It's called a private life for a reason – it's mine, and it’s special and sacred."
-Lili Reinhart.
"I just wanted to have a private life."
-Sia.
"My lifestyle in a sense is kind of private."
-Marc Newson.
"I don't talk about my private life."
-Marianne Faithfull.
"I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public."
-Nina Dobrev.
"It's my private life, and it`s not up for grabs."
-Sam Shepard.
"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.
"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
-Portia de Rossi.
"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."
-Claire Bloom.
"I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else."
-Johnny Carson.
"I’ve got my private life – that’s sacred – and I didn’t have that before."
-Elizabeth McGovern.
"No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero.
"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.
"I’ve never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
"I’ve always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life."
-George Harrison.
"I’ve had my ups and downs in my private life. "
-Novak Djokovic.
"Women have a lot of power in private life."
-Dee Dee Myers.
"I don't think I'd want to be a total 100 percent public person with no private life, I think that would be uncomfortable."
-Beau Bridges.
"I’m a very private person. Very private. You know, I’ve lived my entire life in a fishbowl, so it was important for me to keep my personal life private because people can’t talk about what they don’t know."
-Tamera Mowry.
"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.
"For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life."
-Chelsea Clinton.
"I like to keep most of my private life private."
-Logan Mankins.
"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.
"I am not reclusive. I just have a private life."
-Enya.
"All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"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.
"I’ve grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with."
-Lily Collins.
"I believe in having a private life."
-Condoleezza Rice.
Being Private Quotes About Love
Love is a beautiful feeling everyone wants; falling in love with the right person makes it more beautiful. However, the most beautiful part of love comes when no one interferes -just you and your partner (or other people involved like family) alone. With no contradiction, love should be a part of our private life.
Who you love, how you love them, and so on. Relationships should not be built in public life. Below are some being private quotes on love, relationship, and ties compiled for you.
"Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work."
-E. M. Forster.
"'RelationSHIPS' sinks when they have too many passengers.'
-Unknown
"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.
"I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private."
-Youssou N’Dour.
"Always keep your love life, bank account, and next move private."
-Unknown
"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.
"It’s so great to have your private relationships play out in the press."
-Jorja Fox.
"Keep your love life private and your happiness public."
-Unknown
"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.
"Keep it private until you know it's permanent"
-Unknown
"Not all your family or friends will be happy when you succeed, nor will everyone be saddened when you lose; so, be careful with whom you’re sharing your personal business.” Because privacy matters in a relationship."
-Unknown
"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.
"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.
"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."
-Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Being Private Quotes On Happiness
One of the most exciting things about being private is happiness. When no one interferes with you and your private life, you become a free human.
Sometimes, your private life could be a source of joy to you, even in a bad situation. Happiness might not necessarily mean having an extravagant social life but rather a private life that you can be proud of. Below are some being-private quotes that talk about happiness.
"A private life is a happy life, people love messing up your happiness and what you got going on, keep'em on their feet, let them wonder."
-Unknown
"I’m not an overly happy person. There are times when I’m happy, and that’s usually in my private life."
-Pat Burns.
"I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easy going encounters in my private life."
-J.K. Rowling.
"When you are happy with someone in private, you don’t need to prove it on social media."
-Unknown
Being Private Quotes About Social Media And Public Life
The advent of modern technology, the internet, and social media has been a blessing to the 21st century. Everything has its advantage and disadvantage, technology and social media inclusive on the list.
A negative side of this enormous development is bridging the gap between public and private life and the amazing part of it is, it can be controlled. Below are some being-private quotes relating to social media and public life.
"Private people know how to post on social media all day. But still, live a life you know nothing about."
-Unknown
"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.
"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.
"No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story."
-Kevin Spacey.
"The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes."
-Kevin McCloud.
"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.
"The best sign of a healthy relationship is no sign of it on social media."
-Unknown
"Only a few people care. The rest are just curious."
-Unknown
"My private life… Nobody should care. I think it’s weird."
-Alison Lohman.
"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 and the Diamonds.
"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.
"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
-Imogen Cunningham.
"Less drama. More privacy."
-Unknown
"Social media has created jealous behavior over illusions. Sadly some are envious of things, relationships and lifestyles that don’t even exists."
-Unknown
"The best parts of my life don’t make it to social media."
-Rosalynn Mejia.
"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.
"At any case, you shall not judge my privacy and my private life."
-P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar.
"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
"A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of public Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it."
-William Penn.
"My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private."
-Steve Aoki.
"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.
"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.
Being Private Quotes To Guide You Through Success
Success comes with hard work, innovative work, consistency, and other compulsory practices. However, it doesn't stop there.
Most successful men today keep some aspects of their life private. To become successful, your private life, next move, and other vital parts of your life should not be the newspaper headline for all to read. Below are being private quotes on success from some great men for you to read.
"Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence."
-'Song of a Nature Lover', Michael Bassey Johnson.
"In a world where everyone is over exposed, the coolest thing you can do is maintain your mystery."
-Unknown
"When we keep private matters to ourselves, then we never have to worry about unwanted voices discussing these matters when we’re not listening."
-Ron Baratono.
"There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life."
-George Eliot.
"It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw."
-'Mrs. Dalloway', Virginia Woolf.
"I try to keep my private life kind of private."
-Tyra Banks.
"Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life."
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
"I am stable when my private life is a success."
-Don Johnson.
"I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life."
-Paul McCartney.
"I just don’t think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for."
-Harry Lloyd.
"Private lives are more important than public reputations."
-G.K. Chesterton.
"Date in private. Love in private. Be happy in private. Live in private. Make money in private. Rebuild yourself in private."
-Unknown
"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.
"I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business."
-Ashley Tisdale.
"Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing."
-Kate Mara.
"I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business."
-Chester A. Arthur.
"Staying low key will literally solve half of your problems."
-Unknown
"… 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.
"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."
-Lauren Bacall.
"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."
-Mahatma Gandhi.
"Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer."
-Willa Cather.
"Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and private life is effaced"
-Timothy D. Snyder.
"Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot about them."
-Unknown
"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.
"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."
-Annie Dillard.
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
-Anais Nin.
"The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,–more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private."
-Lyndon B. Johnson.
"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."
-Joan Collins.
"I believe that people have a right to a private life, providing that their private life does not impinge upon their public responsibilities."
-Simon Hughes.
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