No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming a… - Arthur Schopenhauer

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and so immediate that as soon as you are aware of it, it overshadows and obscures all other problems and aims; and when you then see how men, with a few rare exceptions, have no clear awareness of this problem, indeed seem not to be conscious of it at all, but concern themselves with anything rather than this problem, and live on taking thought only for the day and for the hardly longer span of their own individual future, either expressly refusing to consider this problem or contenting themselves with some system of popular metaphysics..

To be alone is the fate of all great minds — a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing
that it philosophizes.