Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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