In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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 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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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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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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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