Career success Quote by Cornelius Wencel

“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of true wisdom…

— terry pratchett

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

— H.G. Wells

“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What…

— George Gordon Byron

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“The false world is full of illusions and misery.”

— Bryant McGill

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”

— Theodore Roethke

“It is almost laughable to ponder upon where it all started and nearly grim and shameful when we realise as humans that we are…

— Santosh Kalwar

“For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be…

— G.K. Chesterton

“And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and…

— Hope Mirrlees

“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”

— Lucia Berlin