A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the… — Joanna Noelle Levesque Copy Share Image
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. — Simeon Strunsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and… — Kesh Copy Share Image
“It was like hermits. There was no point freezing your nadgers off on top of some mountain while communing with the Infinite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab,… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around.… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think up until '71 or '72, Herman's Hermits had our second and third Number One records in 1969 and 1970. You… — Peter Noone Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
