Studies in Pessimism Quotes

“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

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

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:death

“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

“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:beauty

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:world

“to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:children existence

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:boredom

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