What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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 self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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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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