When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. — Robert Duvall 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
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth 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
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
Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims… — Hermann Hesse 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 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
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
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
Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around.… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be… — Pierre Trudeau 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
