Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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 pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Animals
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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Pain
  • Diverse

• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Political
  • Freedom

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Hell

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Know
  • Pain
  • Moral

• I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Animals
  • Over

• Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Father

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Animals

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• My purpose is far greater than my pain.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Pain
  • Purpose
  • Far

• Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Pain
  • Physical
  • Muscles

• People play with pain all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Time
  • Pain

• We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Up
  • Society
  • Pain

• Pain isn't always the enemy.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Pain
  • Enemy

• The soul has no assignments, neither cooks Nor referees: it wastes its time. It wastes its time.Here in this enclave there are centuries For you to waste: the short and narrow stream Of life meanders into a thousand valleys Of all that was, or might have been, or is to be. The books, just leafed through, whisper endlessly.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Soul

• Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Bored

• 'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Power
  • Judge
  • Ocean

• 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 pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Animals
  • Don't Believe