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Love-matches.-- Marriages contracted from love (so-called
love-matches) have error for their father and need for their
mother.
from
Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.389, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.
Friendship with women.-- Women are quite able to make
friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no
doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.
from
Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.390, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.
Masks.-- There are women who, however you may search
them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The
man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily
unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is
precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man
most strongly: he seeks for her soul -- and goes on seeking.
from
Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.405, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.
The shortsighted are in love.-- Sometimes it requires only a
stronger pair of spectacles to cure the lover, and he who had
the imagination to picture a face, a figure twenty years older
would perhaps pass through life very undisturbed.
from
Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.413, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.
Cause of 'altruism'.-- Men have on the whole spoken of love
with such emphasis and so idolized it because they have had
little of it and have never been allowed to eat their fill of this
food: thus it became for them 'food of the gods'. Let a poet
depict a utopia in which there obtains universal love, he will
certainly have to describe a painful and ludicrous state of
affairs the like of which the earth has never yet seen -
everyone worshipped, encumbered and desired, not by one
lover, as happens now, but by thousands, indeed by everyone
else, as the result of an uncontrollable drive which would
then be as greatly execrated and cursed as selfishness had
been in former times; and the poets in that state of things -
provided that they were left alone long enough to write -
would dream of nothing but the happy, loveless past, of
divine selfishness, of how it was once possible to be alone,
undisturbed, unloved, hated, despised on earth, and whatever
else may characterize the utter baseness of the dear animal
world in which we live.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak,s. 147, R.J. Hollingdale
transl.
Remedium amoris.-- The cure for love is still in most cases
that ancient radical medicine: love in return.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 415, R.J. Hollingdale
transl
Forbidden generosity.-- There is not enough love and
goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it
away to imaginary things.
from
Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.129, R.J.
Hollingdale transl.