958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.