Hermit Quotes
60 quotes by 59 authors
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit…
— Jane Campion
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
— Jean Cocteau
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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets…
— Clinton Scollard
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower…
— Judith Wright
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I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry…
— Kate Beckinsale
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As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I…
— Thom Yorke
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When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
— Jim Rohn
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Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man…
— John Fowles
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The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
— Richard Bach
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Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans…
— Andrei Lankov
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to…
— Tasha Tudor
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Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the…
— Jack Spicer
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Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.
— Steve Burns
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I've always been kind of a hermit.
— Hayden Christensen
Who Wrote These Hermit Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 60 Hermit Quotes, led by these top contributors: