50+ Soren Kierkegaard Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

My sorrow is my castle.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Myself One Liner Sorrow
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Life Yourself
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand
It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Exist Impossible One Liner Passion
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Difficult Heart Inspirational
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Believe Hard One Liner
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Deep Think
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
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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Beautiful Deep Heard High Life Live Read
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
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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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Deep Great Loss
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Happiness Heart Reflection Romantic Secret
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Desire Lose One Liner Speak
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Believe Philosophy True Way
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
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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Cry Deep Happiness Heart Hide Lips Man Music Philosophy Poet Sound
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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Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation

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