Hermits Quotes

76 Hermits quotes by 74 unique authors

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change. — Charles Bukowski
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall… — Iris Murdoch
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself… — Margaret Atwood
Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight. — Groucho Marx
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one… — Hermann Hesse
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-… — Jonathan Stroud
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe. — Bjork
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
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
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
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
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton
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
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
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
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
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr
You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out. — Rainbow Rowell
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
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
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper… — Thomas Merton
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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