1. “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
2. “To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
3. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
4. “You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
5. “Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
6. “Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
7. “People’s envy shows how unhappy they feel; their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
8. “Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man’s personal value is large or small.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
9. “Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
10. “Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
11. “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
12. “If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
13. “Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
14. “We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
15. “The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
16. “Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
17. “Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
18. “Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
19. “No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
20. “To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
21. “He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
22. “In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
23. “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
24. “Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
25. “This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
26. “One should use common words to say uncommon things.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
27. “Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
28. “Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
29. “What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
30. “The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
31. “Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
32. “Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
33. “Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
34. “Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
35. “Life is a constant process of dying.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
36. “Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse―until at last the worst of all arrives.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
37. “To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
38. “We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
39. “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
40. “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
41. “Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
42. “Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
43. “Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
44. “Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
45. “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
46. “Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
47. “To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
48. “Compassion is the basis of morality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
49. “Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
50. “Where there is no love, a person’s faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
51. “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
52. “After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
53. “Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
54. “Music is the melody whose text is the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
55. “Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
56. “To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
57. “Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
58. “The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
59. “The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
60. “There is something in us that is wiser than our head.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
61. “The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
62. “Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
63. “A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
64. “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
65. “It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
66. “He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
67. “Money is human happiness in the abstract.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
68. “No one can transcend their own individuality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
69. “universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
70. “Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
71. “Everybody’s friend is nobody’s.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
72. “A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
73. “A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
74. “Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
75. “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
76. “What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
77. “No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
78. “Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
79. “Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
80. “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
81. “A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
82. “Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
83. “Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
84. “A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?” – Arthur Schopenhauer
85. “The world is my representation.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
86. “The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
87. “What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
88. “Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
89. “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.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
90. “The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
91. “Time is that in which all things pass away.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
92. “No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
93. “A hedge between keeps friendship green.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
94. “There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
95. “Life without pain has no meaning.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
96. “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
97. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
98. “Life is a business that does not cover the costs.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
99. “The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
100. “The present is the only reality and the only certainty.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
101. “Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
102. “If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
103. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
104. “Human life must be some form of mistake.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
105. “Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
106. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
107. “It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
108. “Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
109. “The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
110. “Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
111. “Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
112. “Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?” – Arthur Schopenhauer
113. “Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
114. “Genius lives only one storey above madness.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
115. “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man” – Arthur Schopenhauer
116. “If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
117. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” – Arthur Schopenhauer