Quotes About Death Nietzsche

#1. To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa
blessing it rather than in love with it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. 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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. That the death of God involves the death of Man, along with the birth of a new form of humanity, is orthodox Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware.

Terry Eagleton

#6. We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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#13. The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. God was long gone before Nietzsche made his death certificate into a slogan, but no one
has yet written the obituary of the Devil.

Thomas Ligotti

#15. Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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#23. When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Johnny Rich

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave
us!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. - Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure - I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without rebellion with which a Russian soldier for whom the campaign has become too much at last lies down in the snow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.

Jens Bjorneboe

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

Friedrich Nietzsche