This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Again, you may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence. And, in any case, even though things have gone with you tolerably well, the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment, nay, a cheat.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

هذه الحياةُ محزنةٌ جدا، ولهذا فلقد قررت أن أقضيها بالتأمل فيها.