#german philsoopher

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The sympathetic. Sympathetic natures, always helpful in a misfortune, are rarely the same ones who share our joy: when others are happy, they have nothing to do, become superfluous, do not feel in possession of their superiority, and therefore easily show dissatisfaction.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), from “Aphorisms on Love and Hate”, translated from the German by translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann

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In 1986, in reply to a question about Susan Sontag's comparison of Cioran and Nietzsche, Cioran said, "There is, I dare say, a resemblance of temperament between Nietzsche and me: we are both insomniacs. That creates a complicity." The complicity extended to common ideas about suicide and the salutary value of thinking about suicide as a means for surviving sleepless nights. Cioran said that "without the idea of suicide I would certainly have killed myself; Nietzsche wrote: "The thought of suicide is a powerful comfort: it helps one through many a dreadful night.

Willis G. Regier from “Cioran’s Nietzsche”,  published in “French Forum”, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 75-90