Friedrich Nietzsche Solitude Quotations

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.