Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you label me you negate me.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.