Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Death

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Hero, Dying

• Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Death, God

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows, 7, 1888.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Science, Knives

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Humorous, Profound

  The Twilight of the Idols

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Death, Attractive

• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

• Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Death, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

• We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Dying, Want

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Men, Heard

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Blessing, Odysseus

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.273, Modern Library

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Age, Sound

• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Live Life, Hands

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