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Tag Name "Hermit" (52)

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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
Ambrose Bierce
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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
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I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.
Demetri Martin
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Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Thomas Merton
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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
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
Will Cuppy
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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
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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
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Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
John B. Tabb
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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
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The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.
Jonathan Stroud
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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
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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
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Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?
Anne Sexton
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In theory I can do almost anything certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.
Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
Charles Horton Cooley
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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
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Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.
Confucius
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