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“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy.
Unfortunately he is a drug addict.
Fortunately he is in recovery.
Unfortunately he relapses.
Fortunately he is in recovery again.
Unfortunately he relapses.
Fortunately he is in recovery again.
Unfortunately he relapses.
Fortunately he is not dead.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“I got up and went over and looked out the window. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You're a student - whether the idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People always think something's all true.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Look, sir. Don't worry about me,' I said. 'I mean it. I'll be all right. I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Cooperation does not equal enjoyment.”
― Kenneth Adams, Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated