The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
Arthur Schopenhauer