The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

— Peter Kreeft

When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to…

— Martha Stout

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.”

— Kristin Hannah

Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is…

— Ruben Papian

“Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Being single won't give you 100% happiness but it will keep you from the pain.

— Anonymous

The first person you think of in the morning, or last person you think of at night, is either the cause of your happiness…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.

— Melissa Nathan

“You Can't have happiness without pain; You need to have a little bit of rain, to have a little bit of rainbow”

— Felix Lengyel