Friedrich Nietzsche Flame Quotations

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.