What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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 proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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