Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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