More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.