The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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