More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
