Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

Schopenhauer frames ordinary human separations and reunions in stark metaphysical terms. A farewell is not merely social inconvenience but a small rehearsal of mortality: it confronts us with absence, irreversibility, and the fear that a bond may be broken forever. Conversely, meeting again feels like a “resurrection” because it reverses that absence and restores a living presence we had mentally consigned to loss. The pairing also hints at his broader pessimism: daily life continually brushes against death, and our strongest consolations are temporary reprieves—moments when what was “gone” returns. The quote’s power lies in translating intimate emotion into a universal existential rhythm of loss and return.