Schopenhauer: The Philosopher Who Knew Life’s Pain

He was never a pessimist but a realist. One of my favourite quotes from him that I find absolutely correct is “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

I find his views give me a sense of relief from that pressure of "I should be more happy than I am. Something's wrong." Letting go of that pressure ends up making me more happy.

I agree with Arthur Schopenhauer. Life just sucks. It's painful in many ways and he understood that. He didn't sugarcoat anything, he told it as it was. None of us asked to be here, and sometimes I wish I wasn't.

No rose without a thorn, but many a thorn without a rose. -- Schopenhauer

"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability", something most people are confronted with everyday. A wise man he was and one of my favourite philosophers by a country mile.

A man of brilliance. I never chose to be here, but I guess since I am here I will try to make the best of a bad situation.

The most depressed minded people are also the most intelligent, introspective and observant. Another great video, thank you.

I clicked on this video accidentally and it was exactly what I was looking for

"Life sucks, then you die." That sums it up nicely.

Schopenhauer to me is a very practical philosopher. He tells it how it is and doesn't sugar coat life or take the leap of faith as so many other philosophers do. I live my life to try to minamlize pain while prolonging pleasure. For instance i don't waste any time in the morning checking my phone or socials as that creates anxiety but instead get too it right away, get my hiking gear on and take my dog for a long hike in. Contrast that to staying in bed and death scrolling for an hour. I try to live my life in that manner. Making pleasure efficiently attainable whilst minamlizing the pain.

His way of seeing life's nature, which is so realistic for me, is not easy to talk about. Most people find it 'spooky' and depressing.

Life is a forced existence. I didn't ask to be created. But I were created by my parents, for whatever reason. A life filled with loneliness and depression, that's what it resulted in, because of my absent and emotionally unavailable parents. I don't want to have my own kids, sex and marriage. But that makes it hard to find a partner. To bring another life into this world is a forced existence. A punishment for whatever reasons unknown.

Schopenhauer is the philosopher I agree the most with. So well made, Einzelgänger. Thank you.

If suffering outweighs pleasures than one could make the argument that this reality is actually "hell".

I have visited Schopenhauer's gravesite at the Frankfurter Hauptfriedhof (Frankfurt Main Cemetery) many times. It is nothing elaborate, compared with the great many memorials in the cemetery. It is an unassuming gravesite, marked off by small hedges and a large flat stone marker on which is written: Arthur Schopenhauer. No dates are given on the limestone marker.

Schopenhauer's brutal honesty is a breath of fresh air

This man was the realist not the pessimist

As soon as I saw the thumbnail I immediately clicked on it schopenhaur is such a nice philosopher 90% of his philosophies are so true he is one of the only philosophers who cares not about what sounds good but what is actually the truth thank you enzelganger for bringing this video

Even trying to remain healthy is no guarantee and we end up sick anyway. Life not only sucks, it's a crap shoot. Becoming ill is inevitable anyway, no matter how healthy someone tries to be. In fact, one could prolong their suffering by trying so hard to remain healthy.

This video has helped me reset my view on life to healthier expectations