Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes on Life (14 Quotes)

Without music, life would be a mistake.... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

Amor Fati Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.

The falseness of an opinion is not, for us, any objection to it. The question is how far it is life furthering, life preserving, species preserving and perhaps species creating.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.

He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.

As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.