Joy Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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— Friedrich Nietzsche

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“(Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Rather the artist’s delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“as if a round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe, golden apple with a soft, cool, velvety skin - thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Have you ever said Yes to a single joy? O my friends, then you have said Yes too to all woe. All…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Joys want the eternity of all things, they want deep, profound eternity!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator –…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

— Friedrich Nietzsche