say Yes to Life

On page 19 Nietzsche refers to Schopenhauer's ideas about life and self.

"What was especially at stake was the value of the unegoistic, the instincts of pity, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, which Schopenhauer had gilded, deified, and projected into a beyond for so long that at last they became for him "value-in-itself," on the basis of which he said No to life and to himself.

When I read "No to life and to himself" it made me think of the language of existentialism. I remember reading in existentialist writings that you should say Yes to life and spurn death and so on and so forth.

Nietzsche then says: "...it was precisely here that I saw the beginning of the end, the dead stop, a retrospective weariness, the will turning against life, the tender and sorrowful signs of the ultimate illness: I understood the ever spreading morality of pity that had seized even on philosophers and made them ill..."