Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every possession and every happiness are but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every possession and every happiness are but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Fame is something which must be won honor is something which must not be lost.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer