In The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche introduces the idea of amor fati, or “love of fate,” an idea that he further explores in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo. This idea of amor fati seems in some ways another formulation of eternal recurrence: how can one will that which already is, that over which we have no control, that which is necessary? On one level, it addresses the literal possibility of eternal recurrence, as well as commonly held ideas about fate and destiny. On another level, however, it addresses the bare fact of being human- that being human comes with certain inevitabilities, limitations, necessities, and yes, possibilities, regardless of what one believes about fate. Jean-Paul Sartre, too, must address the question of necessity and limitation in his discussions of freedom. This paper seeks to explore the relationship between Nietzsche’s amor fati and Sartre’s notions of freedom and facticity primarily through the vehicle of fiction. What does Nietzsche here mean by “fate”? What does it mean to say that he wants to “love” fate, that he wishes to be a “Yes-sayer”? How are these ideas pursued and developed in Thus Spoke Zarathustra? How do “love” and “fate” come up in Sartre’s own works? Is Sartre’s facticity the “necessity” to which Nietzsche refers in the above quote? How does Sartre use novels, short stories, and plays to exhibit these ideas in specific, concrete situations? In what sense, if at all, does Sartre, as a philosophical descendant of Nietzsche’s, take up the idea of amor fati?