Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra

SECOND PART. 44. XLIV. THE STILLEST HOUR. (continued)

Ah, my friends! I should have something more to say unto you! I should have something more to give unto you! Why do I not give it? Am I then a niggard?--

When, however, Zarathustra had spoken these words, the violence of his pain, and a sense of the nearness of his departure from his friends came over him, so that he wept aloud; and no one knew how to console him. In the night, however, he went away alone and left his friends.