Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

The scenes of our life resemble pictures in rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to seem beautiful.

There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Whatever we may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is that of his falling asleep, just as the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awakening.

All amorousness […] is rooted in the sexual impulse alone.

It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

All satisfaction, or what is commonly called happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.