Death Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a constant process of dying.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates…

— 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

“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“it seems to me that the idea of dignity can be applied only in an ironical sense to a being whose will…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“When, at the end of their lives, most men look back they will find that they have lived throughout ad interim. They…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer