Quotes by Schopenhauer, Arthur

A word too much always defeats its purpose. >>

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things o >>

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rig >>

Quotations about Suicide

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare >>

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. >>

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dou >>

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Schopenhauer, Arthur