Death Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Die at the right time”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no salvation for him who thus suffereth from himself, unless it be speedy death.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not very tired of life? Are ye not very…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche