Life Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.”

— SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

— Soren Kierkegaard

To love another person is to help them love God.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in lifes relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one…

— Soren Kierkegaard

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Imagination is what providence uses to take men captive in actuality, in existence, in order to get them far enough out, or…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only…

— Soren Kierkegaard

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does…

— Soren Kierkegaard

How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

— Soren Kierkegaard

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

— Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Soren Kierkegaard