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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Suffering

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bullying, World Suffering, Suffering

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Suffering, Cost

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering, Pity, Contagious

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Joy, Suffering

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering, Going Out, Heroic

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

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

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creating, Suffering, Salvation

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

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering, Principles, Doe

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Joy, Suffering

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Men, Suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.170, 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

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

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, People, Suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Revenge, Suffering, Pay

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Greatness, Suffering

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Men, Suffering

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Enemy, Suffering

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.121, Booklassic

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Joy, Suffering, Paper

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering, Martyr, Disciple

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self, Joy, Suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.37, e-artnow

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creating, Suffering, Transformation

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

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Goal, Suffering

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

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Attitude, Suffering, Doe

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