Hermit Quotes
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Hermit Quotes & Sayings
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I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.
— Kim Basinger
It was be a hermit or open a hotel-. -with nothing in between.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?
— Cormac McCarthy
I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.
— Demetri Martin
You're taking my position as lame hermit in this relationship.
— Santino Hassell
Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.
— Richard J. Ward
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
— John Darnielle
Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not
— Caryl Ann Casbon
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
— James Russell Lowell
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
— Ludovico Ariosto
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Solitary the thrush,
The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the
settlements,
Sings by himself a song.
Song of the bleeding throat! — Walt Whitman
The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the
settlements,
Sings by himself a song.
Song of the bleeding throat! — Walt Whitman
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
— Leslie What
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 of its pleasures?
— Hermann Hesse
It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.
— Phyllis George
People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
— Sage Stallone
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.
— John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon
You. Killed. A. Hermit. You. Weird. Sweaty. Bastard!
— Lev Grossman
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
— Richard Bach
Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.
— Confucius
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
— Henry David Thoreau
You really know how to make a person sound like a hermit."
"If the sagging spot on the couch fits. — Ottilie Weber
"If the sagging spot on the couch fits. — Ottilie Weber
If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.
— Anuj Bajaj
You're not getting any younger. You can only be a canoeing, programming, hermit bachelor, CEO rich dude for so long.
— Jenny Holiday
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
— Charles Phillips
Loneliness - since I was trying to escape it - was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.
— Kobo Abe
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
I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.
— Sally Field
I've always been kind of a hermit.
— Hayden Christensen
I don the robe of hermit without a cry.
— Richard Matheson
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
— Anton Chekhov
Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of the toilet becomes a ritual.
— Steve Merrick
I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.
— Kesh
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Consciousness is a born hermit.
— George Santayana
I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.
— Joanna Noelle Levesque
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
— Charles Bukowski
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
— Jean Cocteau
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
Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight. — Groucho Marx
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
— Franz Kafka
The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men.
— Aleister Crowley
Gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone.
— Gail Caldwell
An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living human sacrifice, in a way.
— David Mitchell
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
— Thomas Merton
The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome.
— Sylvain Tesson
The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.
— Anthony Marais
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
— Terry Pratchett
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
— Isaac Watts
And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars.
— Eleanor Catton
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
— Khalil Gibran
When you think like a hermit, you forget what you know.
— Will Oldham
The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
— Thomm Quackenbush
You're a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.
— Rainbow Rowell
Daughter," said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.
— C.S. Lewis
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.
— Jonathan Dunne
I'm a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle.
— Sarah Noffke
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
— Richard Foreman
I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
— Carrie Brownstein
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
— John Darnielle
-A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.
— Jesse Ball
Whoever that hermit was, he obviously despised his fellow man, and that meant he was OK in Eliot's book.
— Lev Grossman
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
— Dean Koontz
The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.
— Henry David Thoreau