My sorrow is my castle.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDListen 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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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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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The most common form of despair is not being who 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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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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