Your Room Quotes:

Your room is not your prison. You are.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Rooms, Prison, Your Room

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Rooms, Prison, Your Room

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

- Franz Kafka

source: "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Soul Life, Spiritual Eyes

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life, Soul Life, Spiritual Eyes

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from May 26, 2010

topic: Basketball, Fighting, Helping Others, Making A Difference In The World, Social Service

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

- Keith Olbermann

topic: Thinking, Years, Rooms, Your Room

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Glasses, Locks, Rooms, Your Room

When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there’s a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them. And who knows what might happen to you then?

- Jonathan Franzen

source: FaceBook post by Jonathan Franzen from Apr 06, 2012

topic: Real, Animal, Years, Sneer, Your Room

Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1941). “Fifty Selected Poems with English Translations”

topic: House, Leaving, Lasts, Your Room

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

- Rajneesh

topic: Energy, Sitting, Rooms, Your Room, Sitting Alone

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

- Yoko Ono

topic: Mind, Wish, Way, Your Room

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

- Samantha Shannon

topic: Teenager, Rooms, Rebellious, Your Room, Rebellious Teenagers

When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.

- Galway Kinnell

source: Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Stars, Thinking, Broken, Your Room

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Adversity, Flames, Order, Your Room

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

- Nate Berkus

topic: Dimensions, Looks, Pieces, Your Room

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all There was to it.

- Mark Strand

topic: Book, Cities, Shadow, Your Room, Blizzard

It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

- Philip Connors

topic: Nice, Wine, Beer, Railroad Tracks, Your Room

The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Life, Buddhist, Sleep, Vipers, Serpent

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

- Christopher Alexander

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Children, Your Room, Terrace

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Light, Doors, Differences, Long Wait, True Ones

But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Coffee, Thinking, People, Shuffling, Your Room

I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.

- Kiera Cass

topic: Night, Rooms, Should, Your Room

Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.

- Greg Evigan

topic: Mother, Dad, Tv Shows, Your Room

If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

- Rajneesh

topic: Anger, People, Meditation, Your Room

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

- Camille Claudel

topic: Beach, Garden, Ideas, Your Room

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

- John Cleese

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Lucky, Fawlty Towers, Your Room

Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!

- Rupert Grint

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Two, Missing, Your Room

I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Fictional character: Hammer". "The Cocoanuts", www.imdb.com. 1929.

topic: Inspiration, Rooms, Blanket, Your Room

Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.

- Walter Russell

topic: Inspiration, Secret, Woods, Your Room

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

- Thaddeus Golas

topic: Wherever You Are, Your Room

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

- William Kittredge

topic: Writing, Voice, Rooms, Your Room

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

- Catherine Tate

topic: Thinking, Advice, Locks, Your Room

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

- Liza Minnelli

source: Song: Cabaret

topic: Sitting, Rooms, All Alone, Your Room

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Lonely, Stars, Couple, Your Room, Adulation

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

- Bill Konigsberg

source: Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Mom, Rooms, Want, Your Room

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

- Nate Berkus

topic: Home, Unique, House, Special You, Decorating

Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.

- Yosa Buson

topic: Sky, Clouds, Rooms, Your Room, Beautiful Scenery

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

- Rumi

topic: Wisdom, Being Alone, Solitude, Your Room

I want to be with you, too,” he said. “I’ll come to your room after dawn.” Qhuinn didn’t want to ask. Had to. “What about Saxton?” “He’s gone on vacation.” Reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally. “For how long?” “Just a couple of days.” Too bad. Any chance of an extension…for like a year or two? Maybe forever? “Okay, it’s a—” Qhuinn stopped himself before he finished that with date. There was no sense kidding himself. Saxton was away. Blay wanted to get laid. And Qhuinn was more than willing to supply the male with what he wanted.

- J.R. Ward

topic: Couple, Vacation, Years, Want To Be With You, Your Room

We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

- Dana Spiotta

source: Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

topic: Long, Lazy, Afternoon, Your Room, Suburbia

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

- Rajneesh

topic: Relationship, Moving, Thinking, Your Room

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

- Abel Ferrara

source: Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

topic: Couple, Writing, People, Your Room

So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

topic: Writing, Doors, Water, Plugs, Your Room

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room

- Gavin DeGraw

topic: People, Different, Rooms, Your Room

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

- Austin Osman Spare

topic: Doors, Mind, Rooms, Your Room

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

source: "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

topic: Play, Sitting, Rooms, Cabaret, Chum

...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.

- John of Kronstadt

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Heart, Impure Thoughts, Impurity

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

- Ron Padgett

source: Ron Padgett (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.532, Coffee House Press

topic: Home, World, Care, Your Room

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Cheer, Dedication, Dressers, Championship Rings

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Happiness, Moon, Shining, Moon Night, Your Room