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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Hate, Forever
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Birthday, Marriage

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Family, Happiness
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Motivational, Friendship

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Revenge, Women
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.79, Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Life, Crush
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Inspirational, Feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.203, Vintage

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Healthy, Needs
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.187, Penguin

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, God, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, Xist Publishing

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Sports, Men

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Lust, Forgiving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.124, Vintage

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Fall, Passion

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Best Friend, Friendship

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Live For Today, Merit

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Inspirational, Inspiring
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Broken Heart, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.51, Friederich Nietzsche

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Sensual, Triumph
Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Oxford University Press

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Morning, Growing Up
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Warrior, Age
Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Marriage, Two
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.53, Algora Publishing

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

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

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Heart, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.111, Penguin

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Marriage, Powerful
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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