When you stare at the abyss from a distance, you may find it lifeless. You stare at it, ignore it and feel it. But at the same time, this inanimate thing is staring at you and ignoring you. It will change you. Those dark, obscure and hidden things, you may think that you are just ignoring them, but in fact ... you are deeply involved in them and can't extricate yourself.

This sentence comes from Nietzsche's The Other Side of Good and Evil, section 146, the original text:

Who's with young K? God, he hasn't grown up yet. When you are in a dark place, the darkness is also in China.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844 10 year 10/5-1900 died at the age of 55), a German.

His writing style is unique and he often uses aphorisms and paradoxes. Nietzsche had a great influence on the development of later philosophy, especially on existentialism and postmodernism.

Nietzsche was a linguist before he began to study philosophy. At the age of 24, Nietzsche became a professor of classical Chinese in German Department of university of basel, specializing in ancient Greek and Latin literature. However, he resigned on 1879 due to health problems and has been suffering from mental illness ever since. Nietzsche had a nervous breakdown at 1889 and never recovered. He lived under the care of his mother and sister until his death in 1900.