Amor Fati Quotes

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to it than I owe to my health? To it I owe a higher kind of health, a sort of health which grows stronger under everything that does not actually kill it!—To it, I owe even my philosophy.… Only great suffering is the ultimate emancipator of spirit, for it teaches one that vast suspiciousness which makes an X out of every U, a genuine and proper X, i.e., the antepenultimate letter. Only great suffering; that great suffering, under which we seem to be over a fire of greenwood, the suffering that takes its time—forces us philosophers to descend into our nethermost depths, and to let go of all trustfulness, all good-nature, all whittling-down, all mildness, all mediocrity,—on which things we had formerly staked our humanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche contra Wagner

“Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.”
― Epictetus

“So many times people get carried away by passion, do things they never thought they'd do, and their whole lives change in an instant. Sometimes people are simply insane - mentally ill - and it isn't their fault.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony with whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will, and nothing that we wish for fails to happen.' -Epictetus. A long 'to-do' list seems intimidating and burdensome...but a 'get-to-do' list sounds like a privilege...Today, don't try to impose your will on the world; instead, see yourself as fortunate to receive and respond to the will in the world.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“I then take the opportunity to ask him about the lemon rule and he laughs, tells me its quite simple: “You know how Nietzsche was all about creating your own morality and use your misfortune to learn from them? You know the tale of being hunted by the sleep paralysis demon and the eternal recurrence? To which he answered: Amor Fati, love your fate no matter what?” I nod. “Well I took the old saying, when life gives you lemons make lemonade and took it as an interpretation of his Amor Fati concept. That’s why we will all have a lemon with us tonight on the pub crawl. And if you lose it, in other words you hate your fate and are a nihilist, you have to drink.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“Find happiness in Hevel's brevity, Amor Fati's embrace, and God's grace, all of which make life worth living.”
― Benjamin C. Verar

“Findest du es nicht schrecklich, dass wir eines Tages sterben werden?"
"Nein. Es ist absolut fantastisch! Es öffnet uns die Möglichkeit, das Leben in vollen Zügen zu geniessen. Da jeder Moment unser letzter sein könnte, können wir alles geniessen, was dieses Leben uns bietet.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Die Howl Gang Legende

“Dosrca si to ponovio ćuteći familijarnost, prozelitno prepušteno nestabilnom uvjerenju te shvaćanju da opasno opstoji samo izvan vidokruga, ako i ono je gušeno osjetom neutaženosti, nije dovoljno, strah je nedovoljan, dok se i neosjetno podvaja sadržinom interpretacije, u obrani ludosti, ujedno ludo, ti otkrivaš da ti neprijatelj ne može biti san i takav si otuđen, odavna sebeneznan nestaješ slojevima onoga što ni sam ne vidiš svojom stvarnošću, a opsesija ti je, čuj me, truje te, takav se još stigneš vratiti, vrati se, vrati se, pokušaj se vratiti... sam mogao prepoznati rasuto, prljavo, djetinje neobazrivo razliveno površinom beskonačja, opsjenarski strano je trajalo sve neprestajuće novo, neukrotivo, nasilno novo i tako me otimalo od odluke ishodeći da ludim, sama zbilja iz kaosa izvaja tu avetinjske uzroke osobne udaljenosti, ja kažem, ja poznajem, pogledajmo, umara me navorno prazna zamisao susreta sa smrću svake smislenosti - ali samoća, u mraku, posve bezopasan, beskoristan se istom prisjećajući zadnjih osjeta svoga obješenoga tijela, osim zbunjujućeg ritma nestajućih misli ja zaista nemam čak ni sebe.
Sumiram, subalterno, viziju što ne prestaje, sasvim izgubljen, skromno stvaran, samo je pobuna tu, jedna blijedo osjetna potreba što mi oblijeva osobom jedva shvatljivo, to je ono što se zbiva, nešto veće i nemjerljivo, značajno nadmoćno me vuče stvari neizostavno stalnoj, a koju vidim, svjedočim joj svjetlu, zvuku, jasna je, u pjesmi joj beskonačno granajući životi gmižu bazaltom estetski dosljedno, ali okrutno, odsječno neobazrivo spram ičega izvan toga okvrljenoga procesa, prljava borba za postojanjem, a od toga ja odstupam i molim manumisiju odavna već najučtivije dokle slutim, istovremeno, kako sam u mraku možda u potpunosti zapravo nijem.”
― Ivan Baran, Veliki pad

“Deus é amor. Procede, mas somente se estamos nos referindo ao deus de Espinosa e ao amor fati de Nietsche.”
― Cosme Aristides, A Paisagem Limiar ~ Gênese Vampírica: A conspiração sempre foi outra.