Favorite Quotes When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

Live when you live! Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life! If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you’ll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It’s to produce a creator.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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I know that the key to living well is first to will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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I meant only that, to fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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We must live as though we were free. Even though we can’t escape fate, we must still butt our heads against it—we must will our destiny to happen.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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Certainly not for hope of reward hereafter: since childhood, I have believed that life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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And how terrible to face death without ever having claimed freedom, even in all its danger!

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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Goals are in the culture, the air. You breathe them in. Every young boy I grew up with inhaled the same goals.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom

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One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

– When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom