Quotes About Endurance

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

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate!

Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. Yea, much bitter dying must there be in your life, ye creators! Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness. For the creator himself to be the new-born child, he must also be willing to be the child-bearer, and endure the pangs of the child-bearer.

How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes!

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Pain does not count as an objection to life

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it. Semboyanku ialah Amor fati: ... tidak saja tabah menanggung segala keharusan (penderitaan), melainkan juga mencintainya.

Was that - life? I will say to death. Very well! Once more!

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Keep sacred your highest hope!

One must learn to love oneself- thus do I teach- with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.

It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter humanity, very small in number (for everything outstanding is by its nature rare): one belongs to it, not because one is more talented or more virtuous or more heroic or more loving than the men below, but—because one is colder, brighter, more far-seeing, more solitary; because one endures, prefers, demands solitude as happiness.

What makes Heroic? — To face simultaneously one's greatest suffering and one's highest hope.

The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden.

What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.

This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

Sa m?c lá»›n d?n, kh?n thay cho k? nào ôm gi? sa m?c.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

I teach the No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

that which does not kill him makes him stronger.

In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.