My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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