Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Quotes to Explore
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.
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I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
