Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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