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Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
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Studies in Pessimism: The Essays Studies in Pessimism: The Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer
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