Achieve Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Work, worry, toil and trouble are certainly the lot of almost all throughout their lives. But if all desires were fulfilled as soon as…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom -…

— Luke Rhinehart

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can…

— Samuel Johnson

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

— Rene Dubos

“Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not…

— Leo Tolstoy

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

— Robert McKee

“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”

— Nancy Kress

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

— Bertrand Russell

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

— Pope John Paul II