As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe 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 SchopenhauerThe inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its painโฆ Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Arthur Schopenhauer