Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence. - Arthur Schopenhauer (Studies in Pessimism Quotes)

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.[Erinnerung gebrachten Negativität des Wohlseins und Genusses im Gegensatz der Positivität des Schmerzes ist das Glück eines gegebenen Lebenslaufes nicht i nach dessen Freuden und Genüssen abzuschätzen, sondern nach der Abwesenheit der Leiden als des Positiven.]

Source:(Swan Sonnenschein & Co., ed. 1891), Chapter I. On the Sufferings of the World, Page 15
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