“I call myself the last philosopher because I am the last human being. I myself am the only one who speaks with me, and my voice comes to me as the voice of someone who is dying. Let me commune with you for just one hour, beloved voice, with you, the last trace of the memory of all human happiness; with your help I will deceive myself about my loneliness and lie my way into community and love; for my heart refuses to believe that love is dead; it cannot bear the shudder of the loneliest loneliness and it forces me to speak as if I were two persons. Do I still hear you, my voice? You whisper when you curse? And yet your curse should cause the bowels of this world to burst! But it continues to live and merely stares at me all the more brilliantly and coldly with its pitiless stars; it continues to live, as dumb and blind as ever, and the only thing that dies is - the human being. -And yet! I still hear you, beloved voice! Someone other than I, the last human being, is dying in this universe: the last sigh, your sigh, dies with me, the drawn out Woe! Woe! Sighing around me, Oedipus, the last of the woeful human beings.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Writings from the Period of
Unfashionable Observations (Summer 1872 - Early 1873)
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
– Nietzsche (via nihilist1901)
“For nothing today is more precious to me and rarer than honesty.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via friedrichnietzsche)
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via rhetoriques)
“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge - a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ (via steely-phil)
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via sophianism)
“Was I made for solitude or for a life in which there was no one to whom I could speak?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via desertssofvassteternity)
