Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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 mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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 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’.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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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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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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