Death Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image “To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Death Desire Failure Immortality Mistake
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The belief in immortality is based on the strong instinct of self-preservation that calls forth an insatiable longing for longevity. It is another form… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Human life holds the glorious potential of granting us immortality if we use it to redirect our love from the ephemeral to the eternal.” — Chaitanya Charan Copy Share Image
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t about how long you live it, but what you do with it. When you have lived for too long and experienced so… — Abeni Morris Copy Share Image
“Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies in its… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For all the glamour of living forever … immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it’s fleeting and significant. But… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. — Brandon Lee Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned to the… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.” — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image