More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
