A Quote by Blaise Pascal

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
French - Philosopher
June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Betty MacDonald

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

Richard Cecil

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

Ezra Pound

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

Blaise Pascal

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Blaise Pascal

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he is not moved, not because he wills to be quiet. . . . Joy does all things without concern. For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness, silence, and non-action are the root of all things.

Zhuangzi

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

Confucius

For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

Alfred the Great

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Thomas a Kempis

All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

Aaron Swartz

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

Anne Hutchinson

Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

Frederick Lenz

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