Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

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• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Marriage

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• Death does not exist.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Exist
  • Does

• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Death
  • Need
  • Deepest

• Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Way
  • Birth
  • Gender

• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Know

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
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• Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Why
  • Death

• And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • Important
  • Society
  • Small

• Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

  

  Dermot Mulroney
  • Up
  • Work
  • Friends

• Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Sky
  • Judging

• Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Mean

• 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
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Little Life