What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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