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When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.


Søren Kierkegaard

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SOREN KIERKEGAARD What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so f...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you be...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen bu...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
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