Sören Kierkegaard: Trending quotes (page 7)

“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.”

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”

“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”

“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

“Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility”

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”

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

“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”

“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.”

“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”

“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

“This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”

“It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion”

“Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing”

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this?”