Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
Arthur SchopenhauerMan is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur SchopenhauerHe who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhat give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
Arthur Schopenhauer