“Life is full of troubles and torments; and if it had not them, it would be devoid of all content.”

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

“The will to live is the inner nature of everything and appears in all things.”

“The will as a thing in itself is quite different from its phenomenal appearance, and entirely free from the forms of the principle of sufficient reason.”

“Art is the temporary liberation from the will.”

“Music expresses the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.”

“Man can indeed do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”