Top 138 Hermit Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit. — © Ludovico Ariosto
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]
You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.
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.
I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.
To be real with you, I have no problem with being a hermit, man.
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
I'm truly 95 percent a hermit.
The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit. — © John Gordon Sinclair
The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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.
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?
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
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.
I've always been kind of a hermit.
I'm quite a hermit.
Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.
I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
It's lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I'm really a homebody and a hermit, so I don't have to worry about blowing my voice out.
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.
I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.
Cancer and its aftermath changed my outlook in a profound way. I've become less of a hermit, and I travel more. — © Kathy Bates
Cancer and its aftermath changed my outlook in a profound way. I've become less of a hermit, and I travel more.
I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
I love to be a hermit.
I'm sort of a hermit.
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.
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
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.
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.
I wouldn't say I'm a social hermit, but pretty close to that.
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.
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
I'm a hermit, people rarely see me.
I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
I become a hermit when I am in Los Angeles and I don't leave my apartment at all from Monday through Thursday unless I have to and I don't get much sleep.
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