My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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 stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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 very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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