The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHappiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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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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