"To gain anything we have longed for..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Money is human happiness in the abstract.”

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

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”

“The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.”

“Free thyself from the mighty attraction-The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .”

“Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”

“How my achievements mock me!”

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

“No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.”