Enjoy Quote by Khalil Gibran

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…

— Alan Watts

Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to many. Perhaps,…

— Tenzin Palmo

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

— James Russell Lowell

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

— Jean Cocteau

“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with others. I…

— Barbara Erakko Taylor

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood.…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

— Franz Kafka

“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it— can…

— George Eliot

“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become…

— Franz Winkler

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

— Joseph Conrad

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…

— Jon Krakauer

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into…

— George Eliot