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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §157, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
An aphorism on suicidal ideation as a paradoxical source of endurance, written by a man who suffered chronic insomnia and pain.
Citation: "The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §157, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q11)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
