It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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What labels me, negates me.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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