Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer
A few thousand more words and I'll have said just about all I got to say. I've given you the temple, but they are not so stupid as to let me give you the foundation to go with it. You'll have to build your own. I can think of no better place for you to start than Arthur Schopenhauer. -
Some wonderful Schopenhauerian prose from LibriVox and read by D.E. Wittkower. Chapters: 00:00 Start 00:21 On the Sufferings of the World 33:58 On the Vanity of Existence 46:44 On Suicide 1:00:55 Immortality: a Dialogue 1:12:10 Psychological Observations 2:04:43 On Education 2:23:10 Of Women 2:59:35 On Noise 3:12:14 A Few Parables