Hermits Quotes - Page 3

• Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

  John Clare

  Lonely, Memories, Fate

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics

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• Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.

  Jack Spicer

  Loneliness, Writing, Heart

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• I've always been kind of a hermit.

  Hayden Christensen

  Kind

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• Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.

  Tasha Tudor

  Song, People, Enjoy Life

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• Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

  Steve Burns

  Crazy, Sound, Crowds

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• 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

  Thinking, Air, Speaks Out

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

  Sylvain Tesson

  Dog, Doors, Ideology

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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

  John B. Tabb

  Hush Hush, Fountain, Thrush

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• I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

  Peter Dinklage

  Lonely, Actors, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To the desert go profits 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.

  Paul Shepard

  Spiritual, Reality, Leader

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• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lonely, Cheer, Loneliness

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Science, Understanding, Nuclear

  Kenneth E. Boulding (2017). “Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms”, p.149, Routledge

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• Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.

  Judith Wright

  Wisdom, Past, Fire

  Judith Wright (1992). “A human pattern: selected poems”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.

  John Burroughs

  Twilight, Hymns, Solitude

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.100, tredition

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• Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

  John Fowles

  Men, Tree, Sailor

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.

  Andrei Lankov

  Believe, Book, Race

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• I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Use, Facts, Los Angeles

  The Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isn’t convinced.
  I just hope we can survive.

  John Marsden

  Crazy, Heart, Evil

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!

  Thomas Pynchon

  Taken, Waiting, Hey

  "Fictional character: Thomas Pynchon". TV Series "The Simpsons" ("Diatribe of a Mad Housewife", 2004), (1989- ).

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• I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

  David Grubbs

  Song, Writing, Pages

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to many. Perhaps, in this lifetime, they were meant to work on their own practice, to try to purify their own mindstream so that in future lifetimes (that will last a lot longer than this one), they will be fit vessels to give the teachings to others.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teaching, Practice, Giving

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, Connections, Kind

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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