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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHappiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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 understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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