Author: Nietzsche

Cited by

• Eric Ambler (1)
  • IN: Judgement on Deltchev (1951) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many things in your good people cause me disgust, and, verily, not their evil. I would that they had a madness by which they succumbed, like this pale criminal!
    FROM: Thus Spake Zarathustra, (1885), Novel, Germany
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: Life After Life (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What is some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more" ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a trememdous moment when you would have answered him: "you are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• Geoff Dyer (1)
  • IN: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do it (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself.
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• Shaun Hutson (1)
  • IN: Captives (2010) Horror fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man
    FROM: The Antichrist, (1895), Book, Germany
• Orhan Pamuk (1)
  • IN: The Red-Haired Woman (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oedipus, the murderer of his father, the husband of his mother, Oedipus, the intepreter of the riddle of the Sphinx! What does the mysterious triad of these deeds of destiny tell us? There is a primitive popular belief, especially in Persia, that a wise Magian can be born only of incest.
    FROM: The Birth of Tragedy, (1872), Book, Germany