“Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“We are all afraid of the truth.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on, I can no longer believe you.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

(Aphorism 146)”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.

(Aphorism 157)”

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”

Ecce Homo, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Almost everything we call 'higher culture' is based on the spiritualization of cruelty, on its becoming more profound: this is my proposition. That 'savage animal' has not really been 'mortified'; it lives and flourishes, it has merely become?divine. What constitutes the painful voluptuousness of tragedy is cruelty; what seems agreeable in so-called tragic pity, and at bottom in everything sublime, up to the highest and most delicate shudders of metaphysics, receives its sweetness solely from the admixture of cruelty. What the Roman in the arena, the Christian in the ecstasies of the cross, the Spaniard at an auto-da-fe or bullfight, the Japanese of today when he flocks to tragedies, the laborer in a Parisian suburb who feels a nostalgia for bloody revolutions, the Wagnerienne who 'submits to' Tristan and Isolde, her will suspended?what all of them enjoy and seek to drink in with mysterious ardor are the spicy potions of the great Circe, 'cruelty.'”

Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“For the true poet a metaphor is not a figure of speech, but a vicarious image which actually hovers before him in place of a concept. To him a character is not an aggregate composed of a number of particular traits, but an organic person pressing himself upon his attention. [...] We talk so abstractly about poetry, because we are all bad poets.”

The Birth Of Tragedy, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Neither necessity nor desire, but the love of power, is the demon of humankind. You may give humans everything possible - health, food, shelter, enjoyment - but they are and remain unhappy and capricious, for the demon waits and waits; and must be satisfied.”

The Dawn of Day, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

The Dawn, Sec. 297, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings—always darker, emptier, simpler.”

The Gay Science, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman - a rope over an abyss.”

Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Creation - that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's becoming light. But that the creator may be, much suffering itself is needed and much change.

Yes, there must be much bitter dying in your life, you creators! Thus you are advocates and justifiers of all impermanence.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“He who cannot obey himself is commanded...The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death...And life itself confided this secret to me: 'Behold,' it said, 'I am that which must always overcome itself.'...Indeed, the truth was not hit by him who shot at it with the word of the 'will to existence': that will does not exist. For, what does not exist cannot will; but what is in existence, how could that still want existence? Only where there is life is there also will: not will to life but—thus I teach you—will to power... And whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values. Thus the highest evil belongs to the highest goodness: but this is creative.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“If I wanted to shake this tree with my hands I should not be able to do it. But the wind, which we do not see, tortures and bends it in whatever direction it pleases. It is by invisible hands that we are bent and tortured worst.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Recommended by Xibalba.

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

Twilight of the Idols, What the Germans lack, 2; also in The Antichrist, Sec. 60, and Gay Science, Sec. 147, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche