“On the Nothingness and Sorrows of Life” is the work of the famous German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (German: Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860). *** A person is in the grip of boundless desires - nothing can satisfy his passions, his need for possession, since every satisfied impulse gives birth to a new one. Other outstanding works of A. Schopenhauer are “On the Will in Nature”, “On Free Will”, “On the Foundation of Morality”, “Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics”, “On the Fourfold Root of the Law of Sufficient Reason” and “The World as Will and Idea”. Arthur Schopenhauer was called a “pessimistic philosopher”: he considered the existing world to be “the worst possible world”, in contrast to the German thinker Gottfried Leibniz.