Hermits Quotes

• 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

  Inspiring, Forests, Quiet

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• A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, World, May

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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

  James Russell Lowell

  War, House, Mind

  1869 'On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners', in the Atlantic Monthly, Jan.

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• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Solitude

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• 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

  People, Risk, Lovers

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• 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

  Inspirational, Yoga, Voice

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• 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

  Inspirational, Art, Dreamer

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.6, Modern Library

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

  Simeon Strunsky

  New York, Mountain, United States

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• I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

  Delta Goodrem

  Shells, Littles

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Comfort, Asceticism, Height

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• 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

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "The Man in a Case". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

  Emily Dickinson

  God, Spiritual, Memorable

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.317, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

  G-Eazy

  Forever, Rooms, Dorms

  Source: bestfan.com

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

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Relationship, Kids

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 13, 2017

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

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Men, Solitude

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• 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

  Kind, Devices, Driveway

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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

  School, Shy, Kind

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Doors, Mountain, Cottages

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

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• The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Cells, Mind, Hospitality

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Might, Way

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 23, 2005.

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• If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

  Richard Foreman

  Would Be, Theater, Ifs

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• When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Devil, Turns, Grows

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• Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

  Walter Benjamin

  Food, Justice, Done

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.477, Harvard University Press

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