I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDDon’t forget to love yourself.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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What labels me, negates me.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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