Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
AUTHOR QUOTES
Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Explore 25 verified and sourced quotes attributed to Soren Kierkegaard. Open any quote for its dedicated page, source details and related topics.
EXPLORE BY TOPIC
Selected quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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.
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.
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.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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.
Don't forget to love yourself.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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.
Once you label me you negate me.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
More quotes attributed to Soren Kierkegaard are available across the Mayalines library.
Related author collections
Explore authors represented in the same topics.