I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit 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
“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. — Steve Burns Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“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
