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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Blessing, Swings
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, War, Animal
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.214, Oxford University Press

Life without pain has no meaning.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Without Pain

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Inspirational, Pain, Philosophical

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Believe, Animal
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.52, Publishdrive

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Intelligent, World Suffering
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Happy, Pain

If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Adversity, Successful
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Animal, Agony
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad, Death, Pain
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Lying, Fate
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Depression, Pain, World Suffering

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Reality, Depth
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.41, Publishdrive

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Character, Feelings
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Positive, Pain, Philosophical
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain, Light, Childhood
"Parerga und Paralipomena II". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Chapter XXIV, 1851.

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