Hermits Quotes

76 Hermits quotes by 74 unique authors

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
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us. — Henry David Thoreau
Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door. — Sylvain Tesson
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go… — Walter Benjamin
Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. — Steve Burns
I've always been kind of a hermit. — Hayden Christensen
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. — Peter Dinklage
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit. — Richard Foreman
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while. — Delta Goodrem
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be… — Criss Jami
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament;… — Sam Walter Foss
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush. — John B. Tabb
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson
When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. — Robert Duvall
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. — James Russell Lowell
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a… — Laurence Sterne
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that… — Alan Watts
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't… — Orson Welles
Hermits have no peer pressure. — Steven Wright
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret… — Sarah Orne Jewett
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I… — Robertson Davies
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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