We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHappiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is a constant process of dying.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER