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
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian. — Amrita Singh Copy Share Image
“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. — Terry Pratchett 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 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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be… — Pierre Trudeau 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
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 Copy Share Image
And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But… — Melina Marchetta 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
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
“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
“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
