People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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