top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Delight quotes
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
Explore more quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
"Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
"All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering."
"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
bottom of page