Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

The world is always terrible.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.