I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.