“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.” — 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
“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
“What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God’s gift by… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed… — 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
“Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect for its significance I have sought… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?” — 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
“It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can… — 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
“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
“But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the… — 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
“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
“Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former… — 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
