To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. — John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Copy Share Image
“The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings… — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit. — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
“Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.” — Shuichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while. — Delta Goodrem Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They… — Candis Cayne Copy Share Image
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I believe I've still got lots and lots to do. When I left Herman's Hermits in 1973, I said one day I'm… — Peter Noone Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people homebound from… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks… — James Brady Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
