Hermit Quotes
60 quotes by 59 authors
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
— Bjork
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Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd…
— Richelle Mead
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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 in my life.…
— Andrzej Sapkowski
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I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial --…
— Octavia Butler
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She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a…
— Michael Crichton
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Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
— Thomas Merton
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And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you…
— Melina Marchetta
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He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was…
— Jon Krakauer
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Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I…
— Douglas Adams
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Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no…
— Anne Sexton
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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
— Dean Koontz
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You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.
— Rainbow Rowell
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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet…
— Gustave Le Bon
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If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of…
— Edwin Way Teale
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A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
— Khalil Gibran
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their…
— Kate Reardon
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I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.
— Dick Dale
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If a man always lurks to the beauty of other women even though he has a girlfriend/wife , signify that he is being unfaithful. Well,…
— Kazumi Matsumoto
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I used to write in high school. I loved the freedom. It's a solitary means of expression, where you can lock yourself in a room…
— Hayden Christensen
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In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the…
— Walt Whitman
Who Wrote These Hermit Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 60 Hermit Quotes, led by these top contributors: