Sitting Alone Quotes

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  New York Times, May 21, 1986.

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• Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Blessed, Heart, Listening

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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• 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?

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Reflection, Men

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• It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

  Vin Scully

  Thinking, Lovely, Sitting

  Source: www.dailynews.com

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• 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.

  Kami Garcia

  Dark, Sitting, World

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

  Conrad Hall

  Writing, Dining, Sitting

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness

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

  Fred Ebb

  Play, Sitting, Rooms

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Inspiring, Girl

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.43, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• 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.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Business, Book, Mean

  Stanley v. Georgia (1969)

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

  Fred Ebb

  Life Is, Cabaret, Chum

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• 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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• [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.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Father, Reading, Eye

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Peace, Hipster

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• Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Sitting, Rooms

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• 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.

  Kami Garcia

  Life, Stars, Dark

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• 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!

  Keith Green

  Reading, Heart, Godly

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• 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.

  William Tyndale

  Dark, Lamps, Sitting

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• 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).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• 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?

  Woody Allen

  Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

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• 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.

  Holly Black

  Brother, Bored, Sitting

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• 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.

  Richard Rohr

  School, Rocks, Self

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• 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.

  Paul Auster

  Struggle, Writing, Hands

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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• 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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Self

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• 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.

  Roger Angell

  Men, Games, Tears

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