--- title: "15 Oneself Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard" description: "15 Oneself quotes by Soren Kierkegaard. Plus more from Soren Kierkegaard and more Oneself sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db8/soren-kierkegaard-578_dare_to-dare-is-to-lose-one-s-footing-momenta_589622.jpg" --- > [To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-dare-is-to-lose-one-s-footing-momentarily-not-to-dare-is-to-lose-2/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db8/soren-kierkegaard-578_dare_to-dare-is-to-lose-one-s-footing-momenta_589622.jpg) > [To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/to-venture-causes-anxiety-not-to-venture-is-to-lose-oneself/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/soren-kierkegaard-578_anxiety_to-venture-causes-anxiety-not-to-venture_2045780.jpg) > [Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/boredom-is-the-root-of-all-evil-the-despairing-refusal-to-be-oneself/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/369/soren-kierkegaard-578_boredom_boredom-is-the-root-of-all-evil-the-desp_2240895.jpg) > [Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/most-people-are-subjective-toward-themselves-and-objective-toward-all/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/soren-kierkegaard-578_objectives_most-people-are-subjective-toward-themse_1770793.jpg) > [It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-was-completely-fruitless-to-quarrel-with-the-world-whereas-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/soren-kierkegaard-578_fruitless_it-was-completely-fruitless-to-quarrel-w_2952265.jpg) > [Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/most-people-believe-that-the-christian-commandments-e-g-to-love-one-s/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a48/soren-kierkegaard-578_believe_most-people-believe-that-the-christian-c_2579162.jpg) > [It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-very-dangerous-to-go-into-eternity-with-possibilities-which-one-2/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb2/soren-kierkegaard-578_becoming_it-is-very-dangerous-to-go-into-eternity_1737578.jpg) > [One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/one-should-be-an-enigma-not-just-to-others-but-to-oneself-too-i-study/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/006/soren-kierkegaard-578_cigar_one-should-be-an-enigma-not-just-to-othe_1941641.jpg) > [ The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...\[but\] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-most-common-despair-is-not-choosing-or-willing-to-be-oneself-but/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38c/soren-kierkegaard-578_common_the-most-common-despair-is-not-choosing_2448574.jpg) > [Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/sin-is-before-god-or-with-the-conception-of-god-in-despair-not-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/soren-kierkegaard-578_aggravated_sin-is-before-god-or-with-the-conception_2917653.jpg) > [ An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair\[s\] over himself, and now he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/an-individual-in-despair-despairs-over-something-in-despairing-over/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/soren-kierkegaard-578_despair_an-individual-in-despair-despairs-over-s_2865905.jpg) > [In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/in-order-to-swim-one-takes-off-all-one-s-clothes-in-order-to-aspire/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/soren-kierkegaard-578_aspire_in-order-to-swim-one-takes-off-all-one-s_289072.jpg) > [As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/as-my-prayer-became-more-attentive-and-inward-i-had-less-and-less-to/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/soren-kierkegaard-578_becoming_as-my-prayer-became-more-attentive-and-i_2164343.jpg) > [And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/and-this-is-the-simple-truth-that-to-live-is-to-feel-oneself-lost-he-2/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/128/soren-kierkegaard-578_accepting_and-this-is-the-simple-truth-that-to-liv_1267078.jpg) > [Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/compared-with-the-person-who-is-conscious-of-his-despair-the/) [Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/soren-kierkegaard-578_conscious_compared-with-the-person-who-is-consciou_516582.jpg) ## Other authors on Oneself ## 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/oneself/soren-kierkegaard/#itemlist", "name": "15 Oneself Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. 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