“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.”
Death
“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.”
LifeAll Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.”
Death“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Life“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
Teacher“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
Time“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.”
God“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Love“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
Dating“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Life“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
Faith“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
Great“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”
Great“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
Patience“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.”
Happiness“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
Love“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
Truth“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
God“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.”
Music“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
Change“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”
Age