Quotes About Fate

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

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

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists apart from the whole!

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

The danger in happiness - Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on I'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Die at the right time

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still. And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience—a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.

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.

Îmi cunosc soarta. Cândva se va lega de numele meu amintirea a ceva monstruos – a unei crize cum nu a mai existat pe p?mânt, a celei mai profunde ciocniri de conÅŸtiinÅ£e, a unei decizii conjurate împotriva a tot ceea ce se crezuse, se ceruse, se considerase sfânt pân? atunci. Eu nu sunt om, eu sunt dinamit?.

One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss".

You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands

Many die too late, and some die too early.

An incalculable number of higher individuals now perish: but he who escapes their fate is as strong as the devil.

Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a dark chain of events.