Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

“But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:life truth time

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Sufferings of the World

topic:life youth

“there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:life

“The life of every individual, if we survey it as a whole and in general, and only lay stress upon its most significant features, is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:life

“Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:life pain boredom

“Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:death philosophy

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

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:death

“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:time existence

“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:time living existence

“And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:knowledge pain

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