Hermits Quotes - Page 5

• In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Regret, Cells, Secret

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Men, Two

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Men, Museums

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• The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

  Iris Murdoch

  Magic, Theatre, Wonderful

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• How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

  Hermann Hesse

  Failing, Lone Wolf, Pleasure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

  Confucius

  Neighbor

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• Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.

  Glenn Branca

  Struggle, Blow, Rocks

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50 to 100 ideas, which we workshop and then we call around to see who is interested in doing something like that. Once we find the people, we make the bid specific to them. A lot of it is about where you can get people to go physically, which is a little tricky because most actors and musicians are kind of hermits-they like to stay in their houses.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Ideas, People, House

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• It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.

  Phyllis George

  Thinking, Texas, Cities

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• I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.

  Demetri Martin

  Together, Hermit Crabs, Bunch

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• Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Illumination, Inward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

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• Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.

  William H. Macy

  Order, Solitude, Motorcycle

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Ambition, Sea, Spurs

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

  Isaac Watts

  College, Cells, Soul

  Isaac Watts (1832). “The Improvement of the Mind: To which are Added a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth; and Short Essays on Various Subjects”, p.31

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• [On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  May, Sociability

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• No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

  Hannah

  World, Wilderness, Human Life

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• Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Punishment, Dwelling

  "Arthashastra". Book by Chanakya, Translated by R. Shamasastry. Bangalore: Government Press, Book I: "Concerning Discipline", Chapter 4 "Determination of the Place of Varta and of Dandaniti", 1915.

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• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Nursing, Self

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Blow, People

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.

  Monique Truong

  Couple, Home, Emotional

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Autumn, Warrior

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• I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Writing, Prose Poetry

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• Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

  Danny McBride

  Buddhism, Men, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Red". "Pineapple Express", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.

  Ben Folds

  Energy, Done, Sometimes

  Source: www.billboard.com

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