Hermits Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hot

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• The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thoughtful, Men, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.124, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Identity, Losing

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Devil, Turns, Grows

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, Father, People

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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

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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 had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye
  open.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Taken, Sleep, Eye

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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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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• As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

  Thom Yorke

  Boys, Lobster, Nuclear

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• 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

  Eight, Four, Tables

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• Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Errors, Solitude

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.37, Routledge

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• Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Artist, Alchemist

  Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). “The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton”, p.379, New Directions Publishing

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• Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Opportunity, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage

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• To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

  Horse, Men, Succeed

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• He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Solitude, Would Be

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

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• Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Space, Teeth

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.702, Del Rey

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lonely, Men, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Discworld, Teach, Small Gods

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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