In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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