Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
-Soren Kierkegaard in Laziness quotes.

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
-Soren Kierkegaard in God quotes.

"If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"The most painful state of living is remembering the future."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Once you label me, you negate me."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say. 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'"
-Soren Kierkegaard

"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle."
-Soren Kierkegaard in Love quotes.

"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
-Soren Kierkegaard in Fear quotes.

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
-Soren Kierkegaard in Freedom quotes.