“It is in your power to review your life, to look at things you saw before, but from another point of view” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“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
“Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but… — 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
“On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A man can wish to slink away from many things in life, and he may even succeed, so that life’s favored one… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“An Apostle can never come to himself in such a way that he becomes conscious of his apostolic calling as a factor… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I lack altogether patience to live. I cannot see the grass grow, but since I cannot I don’t feel at all inclined… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“God mocks the greatness of man by forging them into the law of occasion, so a person in turn mocks by making… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“For whether it be the lightly armed desire of youth which it is presumed will press forward to victory, or whether it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What… — 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
“The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I have the courage, I believe, to doubt everything; I have the courage, I believe, to fight with everything; but I have… — 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
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe… — 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
“No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Just as a physician might say that there very likely is not one single living human being who is completely healthy, so… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Whatever can be the meaning of this life? If we divide mankind into two large classes, we can say that one works… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 all, it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
