Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.


Studies in pessimism. A series of essays... Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders... Third edition (ed. 1892)


If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing...

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing...

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing...

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing...