Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Suffering
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Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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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"?
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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.
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But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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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?
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Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?
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