Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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If 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.
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Each day is a little life.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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