People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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