“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor 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
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in… — Cormac McCarthy 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
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good… — Andrzej Sapkowski 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
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
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
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
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
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
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a… — Clinton Scollard Copy Share Image
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless… — Sarah Orne Jewett 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
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush. — John B. Tabb Copy Share Image
Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.] — Francois Rabelais 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
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon… — Isaac Watts 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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