Friedrich Nietzsche Lonely Quotations

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.