“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
“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”
GreatAll Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
“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“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
Age“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”
God“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”
Great“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.”
Freedom“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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
Truth“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
Patience“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Freedom“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Experience“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“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
Life“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.”
Life“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Love“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“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
Truth“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“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Life“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Men