I’ve always preferred Schopenhauer to any other philosophers.
Delight yourselves:
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom”.
and
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death”.
and
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another”.

