Quotes About Transformation

Jetzt komme, Feuer!

These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire, Cooked and sampled here on earth.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

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

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

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

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

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.