When You Sit Alone Quotes

#1. I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you.

Christopher Titus

#2. When you sit alone quietly, it's something beautiful, even if nobody sees it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Sometimes I get the sense that it's all "internal" ... Maybe that's why I lived alone and did nothing for three years ... (The man hardly ever washed, he didn't need a typewriter, all he had to do was sit in that shabby armchair for things to flee of their own accord)

Roberto Bolano

#4. In past summers when I had been home, I had often tasted a strange sadness as I sat quietly in the midst of the seething cicada song. This sorrow seemed to pierce deep into my heart along with the piercing insect cry. Always at such times I would sit alone and still, gazing into myself.

Soseki Natsume

#5. When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

John Turturro

#6. To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles Stubbs

#7. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Here I sit, alone at 60,
Bald and fat and full of sin
Cold the seat, and loud the cistern
As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

Alan Bennett

#9. A grieving woman could sit alone on a jetty in the early morning. But not with a book in her hands.

Pia Juul

#10. Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Martin Scorsese

#11. I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Charles Bukowski

#12. I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

Malin Akerman

#13. I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

Jamie Zeppa

#14. I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

Francesca Lia Block

#15. but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy. To dine alone, or to sit alone after dinner, was flat rebellion, to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.

Virginia Woolf

#16. And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what ... to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

Nicholas Stoller

#17. Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Gautama Buddha

#18. It kind of depressed me to think a human could be so lonely that she would comfort herself with the company of appliances that whistle, and sit alone to eat.

Markus Zusak

#19. What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone in the forest at night.

Thomas Merton

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

Blaise Pascal

#21. Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!

Fay Weldon

#22. I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

Walt Whitman

#23. But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist deep in thought because when
I think of you I don't feel so alone

Owl City

#24. It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#25. He smiles and pulls me onto his leg to sit. "Why would you want to be alone? Alone sucks."
I can't argue because it's true. Alone does suck. But it's all I know. When you lose faith in people, alone is your only option.

Allie Everhart

#26. Can you lose everything, you ever had planned?
Can you sit down again, and play another hand?
Could you risk everything, for the chance of being alone?
Under pressure find the grace, or would you come undone?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say?

Bryan Adams

#27. My nephew is not fit to sit a privy, let alone the Iron Throne.

George R R Martin

#28. If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

V.S. Naipaul

#29. But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

Pia Zadora

#30. I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

Leslie Nielsen

#31. Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon, Almost like my father's chair, which is an ivory throne; There I sit uplift and upright, there I sit alone.

G. Norman Lippert

#32. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.

Moryah DeMott

#33. I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that little grey old head a peculiar vision of hideous blue and gold dangling things flashing in the light, and the smell of sweat, cat food and death.

Douglas Adams

#34. Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am

Christopher Poindexter

#35. I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

Charles Bukowski

#36. Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#37. I'm gonna sit alone in a quiet room and cry until I cant cry no more. I am tired of all the pain inside and I am tired of all the tears falling from my eyes.

Vishaka

#38. Don't be afraid; sit alone for a few moments, the answers will come to you.

Charles F. Glassman

#39. I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Novala Takemoto

#40. We each sit alone, staring at this black screen with a whole range of emotions. But in a strange way, we are all doing it together, and we should take solace in the fact that no one has a clue what's going on. I

Aziz Ansari

#41. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

Rita Gelman

#42. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

#43. I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Doris Roberts

#44. Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

Pat Paulsen

#45. It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Franz Kafka

#46. When there were two of you, you decided so many little things together, such as which room to sit in with your morning coffee. When you were alone, he said, it was so miserably difficult to make those little choices.

Lydia Davis

#47. Amid the chaos and confusion, one thing alone was certain: for the first time, a woman would sit upon the throne of England.

Helen Castor

#48. In the silence, I sit alone on my throne and wait eagerly for all the satisfaction and triumph to hit me. I wait, and wait, and wait.
But it doesn't come.

Marie Lu