"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"One should use common words to say uncommon things."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"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
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Animals hear about death for the first time when they die."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Truth is most beautiful undraped."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Better alone than amongst traitors."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"The life of the individual is only borrowed from that of the species."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."