Chains of Desire Quotes
In life, we often get stuck in wanting more – whether it’s success, love, or happiness. This constant desire can feel like an invisible chain, dragging us through a world full of struggles and disappointments. Arthur Schopenhauer, a philosopher with a dark view of life, believed that our desires keep us trapped in a prison of suffering. In this collection of his quotes, we look at how our endless wants can make life a struggle, where true peace is hard to find.
Chains of Desire Quotes
1. The world is my idea – that is the truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows.
2. All life is suffering, and all suffering is caused by desire.
3. Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
4. The world is a battleground, and we are all prisoners of our own desires.
5. To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
6. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
7. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
8. The wise man does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
9. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
10. The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Chains of Desire Quotes
11. The universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
12. Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
13. Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
14. Our existence is a continual state of dissatisfaction, where every fulfilled desire is replaced by a new one, keeping us in a perpetual cycle of suffering.
15. Man is the only animal that causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
16. To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
17. The fundamental nature of life is not to be happy, but to avoid pain.
18. Man is something that should be overcome, for as long as he is driven by blind will, he will suffer.
19. Happiness is but an illusion that shatters upon closer inspection, leaving behind the reality of suffering.
20. The true wisdom of life is in recognizing that it is, at its core, a battle against inevitable suffering.
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