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 fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

  Dean Koontz

  Lines, Bitter, Misanthrope

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Solitude

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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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• The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Animal, Rocks

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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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• 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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• This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

  Pete Seeger

  Hypocrisy, World, Way

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Vices, Folly, Persons

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.110, University of Georgia Press

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• i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

  Bjork

  Style, Beard, Thrive

  Song: Unison, Album: Vespertine, 2001

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• 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

  Space

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  William Wordsworth

  Cells, Rooms, Spirituality

  'Nuns fret not' (1807)

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• I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

  Anneli Rufus

  Missing Someone, Distance, Mean

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• The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

  Richard Bach

  Choices, Statistics, Way

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