Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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

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

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

There is always some madness in love.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

Amor Fati – "Love Your Fate", which is in fact your life.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"