Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Cited by

• Patrick Ness (1)
  • IN: The Ask and the Answer (2009) Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you."
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Viet Thanh Nguyen (1)
  • IN: The Sympathizer (2016) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word “torture”: in this particular case there is plenty to offset and mitigate that word—even something to laugh at."
    FROM: On the Genealogy of Morals, (1887), Book, Germany
• David Edmonds (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: When a man has just been greatly honoured and has eaten a little he is at his most charitable.
    FROM: Human, All Too Human, (1880), Book, Germany
• Curtis White (1)
  • IN: The Ideas of Home (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is even part of my good fortune not to be a house-owner.
    FROM: the Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• John Banville (1)
  • IN: Shroud (2002) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, e.g. the word 'I', the word 'do', the word 'suffer', -- these are perhaps the horizon of our knowledge, but not truth.
    FROM: The Will to Power, (1901), Book, Germany
• John Burdett (2)
  • IN: Bangkok Tattoo (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What? Could perhaps, in spite of all “modern ideas” and prejudices of democratic taste, the victory of optimism, the achieved predominance of reason, practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like democracy itself, its contemporary-be a symptom of failing strength, of approaching old age, of physiological exhaustion?… what is the meaning of-morality?… all things move in a double cycle: everything which we now call culture, education, civilization will at some stage have to appear before the infallible judge, Dionysus.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1872), Book, Germany
• Kaye Gibbons (1)
  • IN: Charms for the Easy Life (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Stupidity in a Woman is unfeminine
    FROM: Human, All too Human, (1878), Book, Germany
• Jee Leong Koh (1)
  • IN: Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (2011) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: And this is all my creating and stribing, that I create and carry together into One what is fragment and riddle and dreadful accident.
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Goh Poh Seng (1)
  • IN: A Dance of Moths (1995) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Damocles never danced better than beneath the sword.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Brynn Chapman (1)
  • IN: The Requiem Red (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Stefanie Gaither (1)
  • IN: Into the Abyss (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Michelle Hodkin (1)
  • IN: The Retribution of Mara Dyer (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Steven Parlato (1)
  • IN: The Namesake (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What was silent in the father speaks in the son.
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• Tanuja Hidier Desai (2)
  • IN: Born Confused (2014) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I would believe only in a god who could dance.
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Kat Spears (1)
  • IN: The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• F.H. Batagan (1)
  • IN: Smaller and Smaller Circles (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach, and with regard to the existence of which his nearest and most intimate friends may be ignorant; his mortal danger conceals iteself from their eyes, and equally so his regained security. Such a hidden nature, which instinctively employs speech for silence and concealment, and is inexhaustible in evasion of communication, desires and insists that a mask of himself shall occupy his place in the hearts and heads of his friends; and supposing he does not desire it, his eyes will some day be opened to the fact that there is nevertheless a mask of his there--and that it is well to be so.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• John Burley (2)
  • IN: No Mercy (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is done out of love always takesplace beyond good and evil.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
  • IN: The Absence of Mercy (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), NULL, Germany
• Bernhard Aichner (1)
  • IN: Woman of the Dead (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you look down into an abyss for a long time, the abyss looks back at you
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• David Barnett (1)
  • IN: Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "The doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed -- the deed is everything
    FROM: On the Genealogy of Morality, (1887), Book, Germany
• Claire-Louise Bennett (1)
  • IN: Pond (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: For now in every exuberant joy there is heard an undertone of terror, or else a wisful lament over an irrecoverable loss. It is as though... nature were bemoaning the fact of her fragmentation, her decomposition into separate individuals.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1886), Book, Germany
• Lawrence Block (1)
  • IN: All the Flowers are Dying (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Listen, O judges: here is yet another madness, and that comes before the deed. Alas, you have not yet crept deep enough into this soul. Thus speaks the red judge, “Why did this criminal murder? He wanted to rob.” But I say unto you: his soul wanted blood, not robbery; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife.
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra Translated by Walter Kaufmann, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Joe R. Lansdale (1)
  • IN: Cold In July (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever fights monsters, should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• R. J. Ellory (1)
  • IN: The Anniversary Man (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Oliver Harris (1)
  • IN: The House of Fame (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The time is coming when man will give birth to no more stars.
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Ryan David Jahn (2)
  • IN: The Dispatcher (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is done our of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
  • IN: The Breakout (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Lilith Saintcrow (1)
  • IN: Saint City Sinners (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Don & Pezzullo, Ralph Mann (1)
  • IN: Hunt the Jackal (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
    FROM: Twilight of the Idols, (1889), Book, Germany
• James Morrow (1)
  • IN: Towing Jehovah (1994) Fantasy, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: WE HAVE LEFT the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us — indeed, we have gone farther and destroyed the land behind us. Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always roar, and at times it lies spread out like silk and gold and reveries of graciousness. But hours will come when you will realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity! Oh, the poor bird that felt free and now strikes the wall of this cage! Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom — and there is no longer any “land.”
    FROM: “In the Horizon of the Infinite,” The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• Bill Pronzini (1)
  • IN: The Hidden (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But how do we recognize ourselves? How can man know himself? He is a dark and hidden thing.
    FROM: Untimely Meditations, (1876), Book, Germany
• Susan Elia MacNeal (1)
  • IN: The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Megan Miranda (1)
  • IN: All the Missing Girls (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
    FROM: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, (1874), Essay, Germany
• Raphael Montes (1)
  • IN: Perfect Days (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Matthew Palmer (1)
  • IN: The Wolf of Sarajevo (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Scarlett Thomas (1)
  • IN: The Seed Collectors (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Crown yourselves with ivy, grasp the thyrsus and do no be amazed if tigers and panthers lie down fawning at your feet. Now dare to be tragic, for you will be redeemed.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1872), Book, Germany
• Ian Tregillis (2)
  • IN: Bitter Seeds (2010) Fiction, Alternate History, American
    EPIGRAPH: Behold: I give you the Overman.
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
  • IN: The Coldest War (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mankind is a rope tied between beast and superman -- a rope over an abyss.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Andromeda Romano-Lax (1)
  • IN: The Detour (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are becoming Greek, from day to day.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Nina Revoyr (1)
  • IN: The Age of Dreaming (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
    FROM: Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer, (1889), Book, Germany
• Patrick Quinlan (1)
  • IN: The Hit (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... it is unavoidable that we should look on the aims and hopes of the present day with ill-concealed amusement, and perhaps should no longer look at them. Another ideal runs on before us, a strange, tempting ideal full of danger...
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1887), Book, Germany
• Linda Howard (1)
  • IN: Mackenzie's Mission (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man must be trained for war, and woman for the relaxation of the warriors; all else is folly.
    FROM: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Peter May (1)
  • IN: The Critic (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Sharon Bolton (1)
  • IN: Blood Harvest (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.’
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Randy Wayne White (1)
  • IN: Deep Shadow (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Haven Kimmel (1)
  • IN: Iodine (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I did this," says my Memory, "I cannot have done this," says my Pride and remains inexorable. In the end -- Memory yields.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Todd Gitlin (2)
  • IN: Undying (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For a psychologist there are few questions that are as attractive as that concerning the relation of health and philosophy, and if he should himself become ill, he will bring all of his scientific curiosity into his illness.
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Russia
• Anton Strout (1)
  • IN: Incarnate (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is good? Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power iteself, in man. What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is overcome.
    FROM: The Antichrist, (1895), Book, Germany
• Jodi Picoult (1)
  • IN: Vanishing Acts (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I have done it," says memory. "I cannot have dont it," says my pride, refusing to budge. In the end--my memory yields.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• A.S. Byatt (1)
  • IN: Babel Tower (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
    FROM: Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, (1889), Book, Germany
• Irvine Welseh (1)
  • IN: T2 Trainspotting (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Without cruelty there is no festival...
    FROM: Genealogy of Morals, Essay 2, Section 6, (1887), Book, Germany
• Ödön Von Horváth (1)
  • IN: The Eternal Philistine (1930) Political Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Only he who changes remains akin to me.
    FROM: From High Mountains: Aftersong, (1886), Poem, Germany
• Irvin D. Yalom (1)
  • IN: When Nietzsche Wept (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Louis Bayard (1)
  • IN: Roosevelt's Beast (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Blood Hunt (1995) Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: Then you carried your ashes to the mountains: will you today carry your fire into the valleys? Do you not fear an incendiary’s punishment?
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Andrew Pyper (2)
  • IN: Lost Girls (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Terrible experiences pose the riddle whether the person who has them is not terrible.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Steve Perry (1)
  • IN: The Vastalimi Gambit (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you look long enough into the Void, the Void begins to look back through you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: Mudwoman (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is man? A ball of snakes.
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Philip Kerr (1)
  • IN: The Pale Criminal (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Much about your good people moves me to disgust, and it is not their evil I mean. How I wish they possessed a madness through which they could perish, like this pale criminal. Truly I wish their madness were called truth or loyalty or justice: but they possess their virtue in order to live long and in a miserable ease.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Blake Crouch (1)
  • IN: Good Behavior (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.... Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL