Quotes

“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” Soren Kierkegaard

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.” Soren Kierkegaard

“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.” Soren Kierkegaard

“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Be that self which one truly is.” Soren Kierkegaard

“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.” Soren Kierkegaard

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” Soren Kierkegaard

“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.” Soren Kierkegaard

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.” Soren Kierkegaard

“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” Soren Kierkegaard

“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” Soren Kierkegaard

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Purity of heart is to will one thing.” Soren Kierkegaard

“One can advise comfortably from a safe port.” Soren Kierkegaard

“At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.” Soren Kierkegaard

“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.” Soren Kierkegaard

“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.” Soren Kierkegaard

“It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.” Soren Kierkegaard

“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.” Soren Kierkegaard