Hermits Quotes · Page 4

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

Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

— Dean Koontz

I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.

— Kim Basinger

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

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

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

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

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

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Terry Pratchett

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

— Bjork

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and…

— Kesh

“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

“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

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath…

— John Clare

“Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.”

— Shuichi Yoshida

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

— Will Cuppy

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

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

— Richard Bach

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

— John Darnielle

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

— Thomas Merton

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

— Peter Dinklage

Hermits have no peer pressure.

— Steven Wright

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