Alain de Botton Ignored Quotations

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.