Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Illness

• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

• Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Long, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Vintage

• All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Men, Insanity

• As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Culture, Illness

• Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Epidemics, Taste, Wellness

• Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Health, Illness, Aids

• He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vanity, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

• Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, People, Giving

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