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Would Be Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace…
- If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so…
- Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of…
- To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of…
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions…
- It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires…
- If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be…
- 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…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius