"Only when it is a duty to love,……" — Soren Kierkegaard
"Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair."
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358 Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard has 358 quotes on this site.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand…
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when…
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Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition…
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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees…
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People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way…
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but…
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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