Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Barriers and obstacles are stairs that we take to go up.

People can't find their heart until they lose their head.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

We like to spend time in nature because it won't judge us.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Asking someone to love you is the biggest form of arrogance.

The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously!