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Pain Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
- 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…
- 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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
- 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…
- Life without pain has no meaning.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
- The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
- The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which…
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