Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

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

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

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

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Be that self which one truly is.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Once you label me you negate me.

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.

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

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.