Quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Human life must be some form of mistake

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.