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.
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Hermits have no peer pressure.
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
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.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
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.
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.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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.
You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.
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.
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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.
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
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.
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