The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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I 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.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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What labels me, negates me.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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