Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 11 "The Vanity of Existence [Der Nichtigkeit des Daseins]," § 146 (1851) - Schopenhauer, Arthur | WIST Quotations
Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains…
