Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Abyss
• Stare
• Long Enough

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Language
  • Voice
  • Difficult

• Like the dew on the mountain,Like the foam on the river,Like the bubble on the fountain,Thou art gone, and forever!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Art
  • Forever
  • Mountain

• Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

  

  May-Britt Moser
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. It's just one more reason to always try to be kind.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Fighting

• The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Book

• Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Time
  • Angry

• The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Time
  • Ability
  • Concentrate

• without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Live
  • Night

• If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Career
  • Success
  • Giving

• What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Important
  • Technology

• When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

  

  F. Matthias Alexander
  • People

• Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Athletes
  • Onstage
  • Mick Jagger

• I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Fool
  • Hated

• The more the search-light is put on this, the more we discover there is a cover-up.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Discover
  • Cover up
  • Search-light

• Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • People
  • Matter
  • Choose

• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Rest
  • Generations

• The awful glimpse down into the abyss of an existence without him had so staggered and appalled her heart that she felt she could never be quite the same again. However, it had opened her eyes to the fact that right down in the depths of her own heart she really had but one passionate desire, not for the things which the Shepherd had promised, but for himself. All she wanted was to be allowed to follow him forever.

  

  Hannah Hurnard
  • Existence
  • Abyss
  • Glimpse

• If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Abyss
  • Stare
  • Long Enough