Hermits Quote by Shuichi Yoshida Download Open image ““Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.”” — Shuichi Yoshida ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hermits
“Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
“When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark with her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone looked up, as startled as if there had been an explosion—even the new guy who had been so clueless just an instant earlier.… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Kiyo, what would you do if all of a sudden I weren't here any more?' Satoko asked, her words coming in a rushed whisper.… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“There are those who merely dabble in withering looks, but Kyogokudo was a widely recognized master of the art. He favored me with one… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
“Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be aimed at… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
Too many people who don't have anyone they care about. Who think if they don't love anyone else then they're free to do whatever they want. They think they have nothing to lose, and that makes them stronger. If you have nothing to lose, there's nothing you really want, either. You're full of confidence, and look down on people who… — Shuichi Yoshida Copy Share
“There're too many people in the world like you," Yoshio said. "Too many people who don't have anyone they care about. Who think if… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
“If you break out of this world you’ll find this world again, only one size larger . . .” — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
“It was tough coming to the realization that I wasn’t interested in anything, though realizing it didn’t mean I could then immediately find something… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
“Until I met you," she said, "I never realized how precious each day could be. When I was working, each day was over before… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
“The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient… — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think up until '71 or '72, Herman's Hermits had our second and third Number One records in 1969 and 1970. You know, the first one was in 1964. It was just a question of the American success being so outrageous, that that attracted the most attention. — Peter Noone Copy Share
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
