The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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