“After all, it is the best time of one’s life, the first period of falling in love, when with every meeting, every… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“All distinctions between the many different kinds of love are essentially abolished by Christianity.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The slaves of paltriness, the frogs in life’s swamp, will naturally cry out, “Such a love is foolishness. The rich brewer’s widow… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Love has many mysteries, and this first infatuation is also a mystery, even if a minor one - most people who rush… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Love is the unfathomable ground that is hidden in darkness, but the resolution is the triumphant victor who, like Orpheus, fetches the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“As the calm lake stems from the deep spring that no eye saw, so too a person's love has a still deeper… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Mine’: what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace;… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I have a secret to confide to you, my confidante. Who should I confide it to? To Echo? She would betray it.… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“In love with myself, that is what people say I am. It doesn’t surprise me, for how could they notice that I… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If I could forget you! Is my love then a work of memory? Even if time expunged everything from its tablets, expunged… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Love has many positionings. Cordelia makes good progress. She is sitting on my lap, her arm twines, soft and warm, round my… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“At vove er at miste fodfæstet et kort øjeblik - ikke at vove er at miste sig selv.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here? Who am I? How did I get into the world? Why was… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“But there is a concerned guide, a knowing one, who attracts the attention of the wanderer, who calls out to him that he should… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“In love with myself, that is what people say I am. It doesn’t surprise me, for how could they notice that I can love… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share
