Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Poison

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Learn
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thoughts
  • Dreams
  • I Can

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Life
  • History
  • Death

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
  • People
  • Think
  • Death

• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • People
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • American
  • Death

• We live because of the dreams.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Because

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• Here, the enemy was not merely another group of human beings with a differing political persuasion; the enemy here was death.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Death
  • Political
  • Enemy

• A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Enemy
  • Look
  • Pitcher

• I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.

  

  John Singleton
  • Moments
  • Unknown

• Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute!

  

  Gannicus
  • Seems
  • Deliver
  • Tribute

• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Dreams
  • Poison