Nietzsche: 9 Dark Lessons on Solitude That Will Change How You Live Alone

You are not afraid of ending up with nobody. You are afraid of ending up with yourself. That is why no quantity of people ever fixes it. Nine dark lessons from Friedrich Nietzsche on solitude: the two solitudes nobody separates, the crowd that anaesthetises instead of curing, what is left in the room when people leave, the emptying that is a sieve and not a punishment, the price of having a direction, the one person courtroom at three in the morning, the sign that solitude has gone sour, the only company that solves anything, and the question that takes your night out of the waiting room. He rented a room for one franc a day in the Alps. He had forty copies of his own book printed and could not find more than seven people in the world to hand it to. It was there, in those hours, that he wrote what we are still reading a hundred and forty years later. Which of the nine hit you? Not the prettiest one. The one that made you want to disagree. TAGS nietzsche,philosophy,solitude,loneliness,being alone,insomnia,dark philosophy,stoicism,self knowledge,friendship,resentment,eternal recurrence