Hermit

Hermit

A hermit (adjectival form: heremitic) is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society.

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Famous quotes containing the word hermit:

    “If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “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 (1803–1882)

    “The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)