Soren Kierkegaard Quotes & Quotations

Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

» I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

» 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.

» Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

» Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

» It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

» 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.

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

» When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''

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

» 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.

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