Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Order, Suffering

• 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 reaches its supreme point.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Intelligent, World Suffering

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Fall, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

• To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hurt, Acceptance, Rejection

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.62, Publishdrive

• I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

• No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Mirrors, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

• Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Depression, Pain, World Suffering

• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and
  willingly give up life itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving Up, Men, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.253, Courier Corporation

• How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moving, Suffering, Action

• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Glitter, Human Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

• Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Evil, Joy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

• All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Needs, Free Will

• All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Men, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.590, Courier Corporation

• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Class, People, Boredom

• What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Ice, Rocks

• All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Needs

  "Welt und Mensch". II, p. 230ff,

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