Essays and Aphorisms

by Arthur Schopenhauer

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. That is why even people who were indifferent to one another rejoice so much when they meet again after twenty or thirty years.

It is not without meaning that mythology depicts Cronus as devouring and digesting stones: for that which is otherwise quite indigestible, all affliction, vexation, loss, grief, time alone digests.