Human existence must be a kind of error…it may be said of it, it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one anothers money. Idiots! – Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. – Arthur Schopenhauer
This is my depressed stance. When youre depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then youll start to feel better. If youre going to get any joy out of being depressed, youve got to stand like this. – Charles Monroe Schulz
In depression…faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. – William Styron