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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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What labels me, negates me.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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 most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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