13 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Life

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes on life

7. Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

19. ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is--nothing.

38. 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.

52. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

71. There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - to be got over.

75. Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

105. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

108. Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of major effort.

115. 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.

117. 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.

118. There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.

120. We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.

122. We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.