Selected Letters Quotes

“Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts always circle around you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

“She has the power to both possess and shatter my entire universe, that is all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

“A friendly voice seldom reaches me nowadays. I am alone now, absurdly alone; and in the course of my relentless and underground struggle against everything that human beings till now have revered and loved, I have imperceptibly become something like a lair myself - something hidden away, which people do not find, even if they go out and look for it. But people do not go out in search of such things…”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

“That need to talk, talk, talk; I mistrust it, it repulses me. Most people are equivalent to noise for me. Outer noise. Contaminating noise. See, they feel like noise which is perfectly unrelated with intensity. My inner system can accept noise associated only with powerful living, not weak and stupidly persistent surviving.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

“My dear mother: I have received everything in the way of food and necessaries in life unfortunately, too, your letter, which made me feel very wretched. Really these dissertations on Christianity and on opinions of this man and that as to what I should do and ought to think on the subject should no longer be directed to my address. My patience won't stand it! The atmosphere in which you live, among 'good Christians', with their one-sided and often presumptuous judgements, is as opposed as it possibly can be my own feelings and most remote aims. I do not say anything about it, but I know that if people of this kind, even including my mother and sister, had an inkling of what I am aiming at, they would have alternative but to become my natural enemies. This cannot be helped; the reasons for it lie in the nature of things. It spoils my love of life to live among such people, and I have to exercise considerable self-control in order to not react constantly against sanctimonious atmosphere . . .”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was unangenehm ist und meiner Bescheidenheit zusetzt, ist, dass im Grund jeder Name in der Geschichte ich bin”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters