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 s… - Arthur Schopenhauer

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?

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.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.