Life Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life must be some form of mistake

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a constant process of dying.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life without pain has no meaning.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Unrest is the mark of existence.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is very necessary that a man should be apprised early in life that it is a masquerade in which he finds…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Considering the monotony and consequent insipidity of life one would find it unendurably tedious after any considerable length of time, were it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The scenes in our life resemble pictures in a rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed…

— Arthur Schopenhauer