Hermits Quotes

76 Hermits quotes by 74 unique authors

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
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. — Jean Cocteau
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
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
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
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
When the devil grows old he turns hermit. — Ludovico Ariosto
You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit. — Jim Rohn
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
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice. — Richard Bach
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
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. — Simeon Strunsky
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. — Charles Horton Cooley
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and… — Paul Shepard
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to… — Bertrand Russell
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
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And… — Hermann Hesse

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