"Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The deep pain that is feltat the death of every friendly soularises from the feeling that there isin every individual somethingwhich is inexpressible,peculiar to him alone,and is, therefore,absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.”

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”

“I scorn you, scurvy companion.”

“A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!”

“With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.”

“I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.”

“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”