“Life is only suffering”: so say others, and lie not. Then see to it that YE cease! See to it that the life ceaseth which is only suffering!
Zarathustra grants that these others do not lie, then tells them to see that they cease, and to make 'Thou shalt slay thyself' the teaching of their virtue.
- Nihilism (all is empty)Zarathustra turns the doctrine of life-as-suffering back on its preachers and tells them to end themselves.