There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDBoredom is the root of all evil.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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