Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDBoredom is the root of all evil.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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