And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old bench on the verge of collapse. Even now the Showman stands before my eyes. His stiff red hair moves a little toward one shoulder, as if he is going to turn his gaze upon me, and moves back again; then his head moves a little toward the other shoulder in this never-ending game of horrible peek-a-boo. I can only sit and wait, knowing that one day he will turn full around, step down from his stage, and claim me for the abyss I have always feared. Perhaps then I will discover what it was I did - what any of us did - to deserve this fate.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti Abyss Claim Collapse Deserve Fate Fear Peek A Boo Place Red Room Showman Sideshow Stage Wait

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dark Empty Space Love Room Sad

Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we shouldn’t have, regret.And continue piling them up with emotions, memories, conversations which did happen and conversations which didn’t, soured relationships and bitter people all of which we should have discarded, we keep it within until there is no space left, until the room is full, occupied after which we go on to lock it. Once in a while we happen to open the room and sight the dust accumulated all over, we relive each moment, each memory and each emotion again and soon fall upon the realization as to how deeply the room is in need of cleaning and so we clean it.We clean it so that we can fill it once more, hold it, bear it, relish it, heal from it and then finally let it go.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

Chirag Tulsiani Bear Conversation Conviction Disappointments Dust Fear Heal Heart Hold Let Go Memories Realization Room Storeroom Trampled Valor

Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescued and with my place to hide in - what more did I want? I crept in and hid. The lid of the coffin shut down with a bang. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. No more pawings, no more pryings - leave me alone.

~ Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys Alone Beautiful Coffin End Happy Hide Left Alone Love Rescued Room Saved Successful Wish

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

~ Paul Auster

Paul Auster Alone Capability Happiness Room Silence Unhappiness

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Temitope Ibrahim Attention Inspirational Motivation Noise Perspective Room Silence Wisdom

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Accomplishments Bank Note Deperation Desperate Passion Room Success Television Treasure Valuables Value Values

When a woman enters a room, her presence should make them feel some type of way; when she exits the room, she should leave some type of look on their face.

~ Shakena Morgan

Shakena Morgan Enters Exits Face Feel Look Presence Room Should Their Type Way Woman

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That’s when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

~ Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian Christmas Gingerbread Gingerbread House Holiday Holidays House Room Stories Storyteller Storytelling Tradition Traditional Traditions Wonder

I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.

~ P.b. Mcilrath

P.b. Mcilrath Author Hide Away Room Stories Writer

Once in my room I don't have a goddamn clue what to do.

~ Kelly Thompson

Kelly Thompson Adolescence Cursing Home Kelly Thompson Lola Room Supervillain Tedium The Girl Who Would Be King

My other boy thing is that I sort of have a teeny tiny superpower. It’s not a jump-over-buildings, see-through-people’s-clothes, or lift-a-train-over-my-head one, which is good, because when you can do those kinds of things you probably have to live in a secret hideout instead of at home with your mom and dad. And I really like my room….

~ Charise Mericle Harper

Charise Mericle Harper Empathy Home Room Super Powers

I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other woman’s before—why I saw her, heard her, and touched her (when we shook hands at night and morning) as I had never seen, heard, and touched any other woman in my life?

~ Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins Asked Barren Changes Dessert Entered Hear Home House Love Noticing Remembrance Room Seen Shook Hands Should Sight Touch Touched

If you aren't living on the edge you're taking up too much room. Anon.

~ Pamela Eglinski

Pamela Eglinski Edge Hope Life Room Space Youth

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?

~ Will Advise

Will Advise Alone Eating Nothing Person Pie Pious Pizza Religion Room Virtue Virtues Virtuous

Why to be in this room?If I was smart... I won't stay in this room and I will move in a room where people are more clever than me... but If it's easy as possibility... I want without a trouble to finish school.

~ Deyth Banger

Deyth Banger Room School Stay Won T

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. (Another empty room)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

~ Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes Drugs Room Teenagers

Most police cars are the equivalent of an electrical room on wheels and it does not surprise me that police officers that spend time in such a biologically toxic environment are displaying aggression.

~ Steven Magee

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He had you in his room? A dark cloud crosses Jeb’s face. “Do you swear he didn’t try anything?”“Scout’s honor.”He squeezes my waist, tickling me. “Too bad you were never a Scout.”I squirm and smile. “Nothing happened.”That’s a lie. Morpheus got to me in a big way, showing me a side of myself I can hardly believe exists—one I’m not sure Jeb will be able to accept.

~ A.g. Howard

A.g. Howard Affect Alyssa Jeb Lie Morpheus Nothing Happened Room Scout

When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. (Another empty room)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Benchmarks Conflicts Emotional Empty Love Mental Mindgames Play Reset Room Squirming Tinderbox Unremitting

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Being Drinking Not Fitting In Nothing Nothingness Room Skid Row Waiting

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

~ Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson Me Years Room

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

~ Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood My Own Room Used

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

~ Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev Peace Room More

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

~ Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley Knowledge Sacrifice Room

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Belief Order Room

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

~ Ivan Reitman

Ivan Reitman Home Different Room

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

~ Garry Trudeau

Garry Trudeau Decisions Doctor Room

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

~ Steven Wright

Steven Wright Fight Same Room

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

~ Mike Myers

Mike Myers Death Waiting Room

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

~ Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds Thoughts Pictures Room

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

~ Sergei Lavrov

Sergei Lavrov Petty Room

There is always room at the top.

~ Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster Top Always Room

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

~ Fran Drescher

Fran Drescher Life Precious Room

A lot can change in the editing room.

~ Diane Lane

Diane Lane Editing Room Lot