The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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