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
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
Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. — Steve Burns 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
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position… — Kate Beckinsale 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
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor 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
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
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 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
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
For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks… — James Brady 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
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya 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
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
“In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
