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  • All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

  • What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

    Play   Sitting   Rooms  
    "Cabaret" (song) (1966)
  • When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

  • You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

    New York Times, May 21, 1986.
  • There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

    Life   Stars   Dark  
  • My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

    Dark   Lamps   Sitting  
  • The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

    School   Rocks   Self  
    Source: ryanthomasneace.com
  • If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

    Business   Book   Mean  
    Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
  • I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

    Brother   Bored   Sitting  
  • There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

    Dark   Sitting   World  
  • I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

  • Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

    "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.
  • Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

    Twitter post from May 4, 2017
  • [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

    Father   Reading   Eye  
  • Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the Cabaret.

    "Cabaret" (song) (1966)
  • I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

    Glowing   Sitting   Neon  
    Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin
  • I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

    Pain   Children   Heart  
  • Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

    Book   Writing   Sitting  
  • I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

    Source: dishmag.com
  • It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

  • All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

    Reality   Tunnels   Self  
  • He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

    Stupid   Sleep   Night  
    Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
  • If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  • I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

    Movie   Inspiring   Girl  
    Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.43, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.

    Energy   Sitting   Rooms  
  • It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

  • I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me. ... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

    "The Worst Part of the Edwards Case" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. June 3, 2011.
  • Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with tears streaming down his face …. I suppose we should all try to find something better or worse to shed tears for than a game, no matter how hard it has been played, but perhaps it is not such a bad thing to see that men can cry at all.

    Men   Games   Tears  
  • If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

    Reading   Heart   Godly  
  • While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7). As man, the Lord was thirsty, and saw that someone who was naturally thirsty was coming to quench her thirst. As God, however, He also saw that her heart was athirst for the water of salvation, although she did not know Him Who could give it to her. So He hastened to reveal Himself to her longing soul for, as it is written, He Himself longs for those who long for Him (cf. Ps. 9:10; Prov. 7:15).

    Christian   Jesus   Heart  
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