It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
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  1. What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams,...

  2. If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any...

  3. We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

  4. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  5. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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