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 KIERKEGAARDThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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 sorrow is my castle.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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