existence Quotes

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The lie is a condition of life.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.