Friedrich Nietzsche Life Quotations

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

A vocation is the backbone of life.

Yes, life is a woman!

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Art is the proper task of life.

A life without music is an error.

The lie is a condition of life.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Life without music is no life at all.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

No artist tolerates reality.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

Thinking evil is making evil.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.