--- title: "19 May Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard" description: "19 May quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Plus more from Soren Kierkegaard and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/soren-kierkegaard-578_may_may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul-883_883307.jpg" --- > [May new sufferings torment your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/soren-kierkegaard-578_may_may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul-883_883307.jpg) > [Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/shows-itself-in-the-notion-that-what-may-be-objectively-true-may-in/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/soren-kierkegaard-578_certain_shows-itself-in-the-notion-that-what-may_2815858.jpg) > [Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/take-a-chance-and-you-may-lose-take-not-a-chance-and-you-have-lost/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/soren-kierkegaard-578_chance_take-a-chance-and-you-may-lose-take-not_1161693.jpg) > [My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/my-scholarly-expectation-is-then-that-i-may-succeed-in-becoming/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/223/soren-kierkegaard-578_becoming_my-scholarly-expectation-is-then-that-i_562707.jpg) > [A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-man-may-perform-astonishing-feats-and-comprehend-a-vast-amount-of/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/soren-kierkegaard-578_amount_a-man-may-perform-astonishing-feats-and_29472.jpg) > [It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-doesn-t-occur-to-me-at-this-moment-to-say-more-another-time/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12d/soren-kierkegaard-578_adages_it-doesn-t-occur-to-me-at-this-moment-to_3026273.jpg) > [Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/instruction-begins-when-you-the-teacher-learn-from-the-learner-put/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/soren-kierkegaard-578_education_instruction-begins-when-you-the-teacher_1907560.jpg) > [In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-actuality-no-one-ever-sank-so-deep-that-he-could-not-sink-deeper/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/soren-kierkegaard-578_actuality_in-actuality-no-one-ever-sank-so-deep-th_931372.jpg) > [It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-better-to-try-something-and-fail-than-to-try-nothing-and/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fc/soren-kierkegaard-578_defeat_it-is-better-to-try-something-and-fail-t_695421.jpg) > [In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-order-to-help-another-effectively-i-must-understand-what-he/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/soren-kierkegaard-578_greater_in-order-to-help-another-effectively-i-m_1112705.jpg) > [A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-genius-may-perhaps-be-a-century-ahead-of-his-age-and-hence-stands/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/soren-kierkegaard-578_age_a-genius-may-perhaps-be-a-century-ahead_3188788.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/no-i-won-t-leave-the-world-i-ll-enter-a-lunatic-asylum-and-see-if-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd1/soren-kierkegaard-578_asylums_no-i-won-t-leave-the-world-i-ll-enter-a_2930299.jpg) > [Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/knowledge-of-the-truth-i-may-perhaps-have-attained-to-happiness/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/soren-kierkegaard-578_accomplish_knowledge-of-the-truth-i-may-perhaps-hav_2341328.jpg) > [Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/do-not-interrupt-the-flight-of-your-soul-do-not-distress-what-is-best/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/soren-kierkegaard-578_answers_do-not-interrupt-the-flight-of-your-soul_440106.jpg) > [Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/do-you-know-of-any-more-overwhelming-and-humbling-expression-for-god/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed0/soren-kierkegaard-578_able_do-you-know-of-any-more-overwhelming-and_3205574.jpg) > [A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-poet-is-an-unhappy-creature-whose-heart-is-tortured-by-deepest/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a38/soren-kierkegaard-578_beautiful_a-poet-is-an-unhappy-creature-whose-hear_1403785.jpg) > [Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/whoever-thou-art-whatever-in-other-respects-thy-life-may-be-my-friend/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/403/soren-kierkegaard-578_art_whoever-thou-art-whatever-in-other-respe_2163920.jpg) > [What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/what-is-a-poet-an-unhappy-man-who-hides-deep-anguish-in-his-heart-but-2/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/soren-kierkegaard-578_anguish_what-is-a-poet-an-unhappy-man-who-hides_2811486.jpg) > [And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/and-then-the-spirit-brings-hope-hope-in-the-strictest-christian-sense/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/soren-kierkegaard-578_alive_and-then-the-spirit-brings-hope-hope-in_943603.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Soren Kierkegaard > [Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christianity-does-not-oppose-debauchery-and-uncontrollable-passions/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/christians-remind-me-of-schoolboys-who-want-to-look-up-the-answers-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/people-commonly-travel-the-world-over-to-see-rivers-and-mountains-new/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-strange-thing-happened-to-me-in-my-dream-i-was-rapt-into-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/that-which-is-truly-human-no-generation-learns-from-the-one-before-it/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-man-may-perform-astonishing-feats-and-comprehend-a-vast-amount-of/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Be that self which one truly is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/be-that-self-which-one-truly-is/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-go-fishing-for-a-thousand-monsters-in-the-depths-of-my-own-self/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-addition-to-my-other-numerous-acquaintances-i-have-one-more/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-greatest-danger-to-christianity-is-i-contend-not-heresies-not/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Future is everything that past has forgotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/future-is-everything-that-past-has-forgotten/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [Without risk, faith is an impossibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/without-risk-faith-is-an-impossibility/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-only-one-confidant-and-that-is-the-silence-of-night/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/a-road-well-begun-is-the-battle-half-won-the-important-thing-is-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) > [I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/i-have-i-believe-the-courage-to-doubt-everything-i-have-i-believe-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/soren-kierkegaard/#itemlist", "name": "19 May Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "May new sufferings torment your soul.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Soren Kierkegaard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/soren-kierkegaard-578_may_may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul-883_883307.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/soren-kierkegaard-578_may_may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul-883_883307.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/soren-kierkegaard-578_may_may-new-sufferings-torment-your-soul-883_883307.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“May new sufferings torment your soul.” — Soren Kierkegaard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Soren Kierkegaard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/shows-itself-in-the-notion-that-what-may-be-objectively-true-may-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/soren-kierkegaard-578_certain_shows-itself-in-the-notion-that-what-may_2815858.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/soren-kierkegaard-578_certain_shows-itself-in-the-notion-that-what-may_2815858.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/soren-kierkegaard-578_certain_shows-itself-in-the-notion-that-what-may_2815858.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.” — Soren Kierkegaard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Take a chance and you may lose. 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