Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Lying, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Mean, Blessing

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

• The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Waiting, Long Life

  "Willen in der Natur". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 'Einleitung', 1836.

• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Play, Waiting

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

• We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Waiting, Comfort

• You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Men, Waiting

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