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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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