Donald Grinham > Donald's Quotes

“Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ist ein Stück Verhängniss, man gehört zum Ganzen, man ist im Ganzen, - es giebt Nichts, was unser Sein richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen könnte, denn das hiesse das Ganze richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen... Aber es giebt Nichts ausser dem Ganzen!”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung

“Most people come up against a wall they give up, not you. You don't let go, you don't back down...it's what makes you extraordinary." Castle to Beckett”
― Richard Castle

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Plato was a bore.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.”
― Richard Castle

“It is precisely he who is becoming who cannot endure the state of becoming.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“In warring against stupidity, the most just and gentle of men at last become brutal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Live dangerously.”
― Nietzche

“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“My genius is in my nostrils.”
― Friederich Nietzsche, Index

“Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra