People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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