Nietzsche: 9 Dark Lessons on Suffering That Will Change How You Suffer

It is not pain that is unbearable. It is pain that refuses to mean anything. And as long as you wait for it to be justified from the outside, you will be waiting forever. Nine dark lessons from Friedrich Nietzsche on suffering: why the mind manufactures guilt when it cannot find meaning, the culprit every pain goes hunting for, what your wound has been paying you every month, the gym shirt sentence that ruined an entire generation, the comfort that relieves today and charges tomorrow, the distance great pain opens and never closes, the despair that keeps office hours and has a chemistry, the chosen difficulty that holds the one you did not choose, and the final question, which is not whether it was worth it. At thirty four he gave up the highest chair he had ever held. In a single year he recorded one hundred and eighteen days of acute attacks. He spent almost twenty years with twenty minutes of eyesight a day, and he spent all twenty writing. He was never cured, never rewarded, and never wrote a single line saying the pain had been fair. Which of the nine hit you? Not the most beautiful one. The one that made you want to argue. TAGS nietzsche,philosophy,suffering,pain,resentment,amor fati,eternal recurrence,anxiety,insomnia,dark philosophy,dark,self knowledge,grief,resilience