Quotes About Hermits

#1. If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

Criss Jami

#2. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

David Brooks

#3. I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

Candis Cayne

#4. For modern people the pursuit of wisdom sounds like something you'd have to travel to Tibet for. To us, wisdom is mystical and esoteric. It conjures up images of cave-dwelling hermits, saffron-robed monks, and, well, Yoda.

J. Mark Bertrand

#5. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Simeon Strunsky

#7. I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Rebecca Solnit

#8. 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 voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Thomas Merton

#9. Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

William Wordsworth

#10. To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

Jon Krakauer

#11. True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#12. 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 that you're connected with everything.

Alan Watts

#13. I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

Harmony Korine

#14. I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

Jane Wiedlin

#15. The Wood did strange things to humans, especially humans who had a distant touch of the fae within. It turned them from ordinary people into mad hermits, cannibals who ate children thinking they were made of gingerbread, and people who swore they had been asleep for one hundred years.

Kate Danley

#16. We rest your hermits.

William Shakespeare

#17. Hermits have no peer pressure.

Steven Wright

#18. Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

Sylvain Tesson

#19. Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?'

Melissa McCarthy

#20. 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

#21. I believe I've still got lots and lots to do. When I left Herman's Hermits in 1973, I said one day I'm gonna be in a Broadway show, and I thought it would be in 1974. Then, it took me ten years to do it, but I didn't ever quit.

Peter Noone

#22. A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#23. I had never actually seen an eight-pack, but there it was, right in front of me. I guessed that even slightly strange, silent hermits weren't exempt from exceptional physiques. Good for him.

Mia Sheridan

#24. The rain made hermits of us all.

John Green

#25. 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

#26. If the 'Mystics' were about Isolation..Purity about 'White'..Hermits about 'Rags' and Love about 'Self'...
There is tons above and beyond the visible!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#27. Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

Confucius

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.

Anthony Marais

#32. You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Terry Pratchett

#33. Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.

Cormac McCarthy

#34. 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

#35. HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

Ambrose Bierce

#36. I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.

Demetri Martin

#37. [On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#38. No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Hannah

#39. 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 in the tradition of my father and grandfather and great-grandfather before me.

Terry Pratchett

#40. Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

Jim Rohn

#42. A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Will Cuppy

#43. Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

John B. Tabb

#44. Kazuko was worried about him, calling him a hikikomori, a self-imposed shut-in.

Shuichi Yoshida

#45. 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