"One pays dearly for being immortal: one..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.”
“Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”
“One does not kill by anger but by laughter.”
More on Immortality
“...the crazy never die.”
“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .”
More on Life
“He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.”