Hermits Quotes · Page 2

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

— Charles Horton Cooley

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

— Terry Pratchett

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

— Jim Rohn

I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

— Carrie Brownstein

“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

— Francois Rabelais

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

— Groucho Marx

To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought…

— Paul Shepard

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

— Richard Bach

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

— Richard Rohr

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

— Dean Koontz

It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it…

— Phyllis George

Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for…

— Richelle Mead

Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In…

— Sam Walter Foss

And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But…

— Melina Marchetta

We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50…

— Ashton Kutcher

She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters…

— Michael Crichton

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast…

— Gustave Le Bon

I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be…

— Pierre Trudeau

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

— Rebecca Solnit

My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.

— Amrita Singh

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

— John B. Tabb

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

— Henry David Thoreau

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

— Ambrose Bierce

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon…

— Isaac Watts

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.

— Demetri Martin

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

— William Wordsworth

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

— Pete Seeger

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

— Sylvain Tesson

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

— Robert Duvall

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

— Peter Dinklage

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

— Steve Burns