My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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What labels me, negates me.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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