Thus Spoke Zarathustra
This earthly is it that hath too much patience with you, ye blasphemers!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
ye preach patience with what is earthly?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ah!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
But I hear only slow death preached, and patience with all that is “earthly”.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Those would be the appropriate storms and agitators of the trees of life!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Would that there came preachers of speedy death!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Would that a storm came and shook all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Far too many live, and far too long hang they on their branches.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
It is cowardice that holdeth them fast to their branches.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Many never become sweet; they rot even in the summer.