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’.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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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 the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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