The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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 sorrow is my castle.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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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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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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