My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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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 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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I am convinced that God is love.
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What labels me, negates me.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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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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