Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Suffering

• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bullying, World Suffering, Suffering

• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

• What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Suffering, Heroic

• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Criminals, Criminal Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.43, Courier Corporation

• Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creating, Suffering, Salvation

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

• Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Joy, Suffering

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Discipline, Humanity

• The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Passion

• Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Joy, Suffering

• What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, School, Mean

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Discipline, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.156, Courier Corporation

• It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Suffering, Pay

• Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Laughter, Men

• Pity makes suffering contagious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Pity, Contagious

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.349, Penguin

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Disappointment, Past, Imagination

• Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Light, Suffering

• It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Facts, Individual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.34, Courier Corporation

• Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Pride, Loss

• Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Powerful, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.51, Friederich Nietzsche

• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, What If

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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