Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Life
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is--nothing.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - to be got over.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
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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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Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of major effort.
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The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail, it has the characteristics of a comedy.
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Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it up. However, we continue our life with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible - just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.
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There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.
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We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.