This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
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Music heals all forms of misery
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When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil th...
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they ...
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will c...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and th...
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...
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With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.
