Top Hermit Quotes

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

Hermit Definition

(n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

(n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

A hermit never lives alone when he has God as a house guest.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

I understand I've made an unusual lifestyle choice. But the label 'crazy' bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response. When someone asks if you're crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say ye...

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painte...

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. Moist...

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 some...