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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
-
-
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
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 KIERKEGAARD -
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD