How to live Quote by Blaise Pascal

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

— Blaise Pascal

The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

— Robert Greene

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”

— Octavio Paz

“The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing.…

— Knut Hamsun

“Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding, cushioning, embracing,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“SITTING QUIETLY ALL NIGHT does something to a person. At least it did something to me, to the digital me. I didn't sleep; you…

— Stone Marshall

“I was not alone in the human condition.”

— Lisa Wingate

“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if…

— Arthur Golden

“...the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness…

— Marcel Proust

“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”

— Jim Collins

“Even in an empty room, we are never alone.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman