In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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What labels me, negates me.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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