Oh how then could I not lust for eternity and for the nuptial ring of rings – the ring of recurrence!
Never yet have I found the woman from whom I wanted children, unless it were this woman whom I love: for I love you, oh eternity!
For I love you, oh eternity!
—Thus Spoke Zarathustra, last words of the last chapter of the third part.
One reply on “Quote”
Note how Nietzsche tries to defend his mind from the unreciprocated love for the woman he’d have liked to possess by replacing that frustration with an infinite love of… his miserable fate! (Amor fati); from my POV, an idiotic defence mechanism in the very culmination of his work. (For a time Nietzsche believed that with the third part he had finished his Zarathustra, where he reached the high peaks of lyricism; the next part was an extra addition.)