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
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
“Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.” — Shuichi Yoshida 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
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and… — Kesh 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
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz 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
I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
“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
It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it… — Phyllis George 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 think up until '71 or '72, Herman's Hermits had our second and third Number One records in 1969 and 1970. You… — Peter Noone 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
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky 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
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
