Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.


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


To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better...

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better...

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better...

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better...