489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)
The History of Literature
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The Disappointment of Life
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old after being separated for a lifetime, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole. He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. While no man is much to be envied for his lot, there are countless numbers whose fate is to be deplored. If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much
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