The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhy bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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 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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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