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The Clown – Loneliness

~2 min read · Updated Dec 15, 2025

Beautiful Quotes from Opinions of a Clown

"The only one who loved him was Maria. And the only one who left him was Maria."

"If people could be as faithful as they pretend to be, the world would become paradise."

"Religious words, when spoken by hypocrites, smell like cooked onions."

"They are not seeking truth; they are seeking peace of mind, even if it is a lie."

"Love means enduring another’s bitter truth, not just their beauty."

"Nothing is more dangerous than when a man grows accustomed to his sins and calls them virtues."

"I am a clown who must imitate serious people in order to be taken seriously."

"True loneliness is not when no one is around you, but when no one understands you despite the crowd."

"A society that does not take its artists and clowns seriously is a sick society."

"I would rather be a poor clown than a respectable liar of a citizen."

"The problem is not that people do not believe; the problem is that they only believe what they want to hear."

"The more I look at people, the more I love my dog."

"Death does not happen only to the dead; sometimes it happens to the living too."

"We live in order to suffer, and through suffering, we learn a little."

"Perhaps the clown’s true task is not to make people laugh, but to remind them of the bitter truth that life is a circus."

Written & researched by Dr. Shahin Siami

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