Suffering Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity makes suffering contagious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

— 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

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of…

— 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

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should…

— 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

“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very…

— 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

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[Dionysos'] being torn into pieces, the genuine Dionysiac suffering, is like a transformation into air, water, earth, and fire, so that we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us…

— Friedrich Nietzsche