The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

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. View more images...

Human life must be some form of mistake - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...