Groucho Marx Quotes

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I wouldn't say I'm that social... I'm either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

I love to be a hermit.

I would never crawl into a secret space to avoid the frustrating things.

Going to the mountains is going home.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.