Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Silence

• Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Silence, Silent, Poisonous

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.143, Penguin

• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

• For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Silence, Way

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

• It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Silence, Difficult

• In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, War, Silence

• Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Hero, Pregnancy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.137, Friedrich Nietzsche

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