The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMany of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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