Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image ““Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'-… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.” — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
