Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

Deepest within every person there is nonetheless an anxiety about being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household.

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.

The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

Passion excites, earthly wisdom cools, but neither this heat nor this coolness, nor the blending of the heat and coolness is the pure air of the eternal. There is in this heat something ardent, and in this coolness something sharp, and in the blending of the two something indefinite, or an unconscious deceitfulness, as in the hazardous season of spring. But this 'thou shalt love' takes away all the unsoundness and preserves the soundness of eternity.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Kazna odgovara krivici: da nam bude uskra?eno svako zadovoljstvo življenja, da smo dovedeni do najvišeg stepena odvratnosti prema životu.

La angustia, sin embargo, no es hermosa por sí misma, sino solamente cuando aparece acompañada por la energía que sabe dominarla.

Therefore, the person who is unable to write letters and notes never becomes a dangerous seducer.

Es una eterna ley del amor, que dos seres deben sentirse nacidos uno para el otro desde el primer momento en que comenzaron a amarse

Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a deep anguish, but whose lips are so fashioned that the moans and cries which pass over them are transformed into ravishing music….And men crowd about the poet and say to him, 'Sing for us soon again'- which is as much to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul, but may your lips be fashioned as before; for the cries would only distress us, but the music, the music is delightful.

Existen dos maneras de ser engañados: una es creer lo que no es verdad y la otra es negarse a aceptar lo que sí lo es.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

Det gäller att finna en sanning, som är sanning för mig, att finna en idé för vilken jag vill leva och dö.

Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.

Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith; for only in infinite resignation does my eternal validity become transparent to me, and only then can there be talk of grasping existence on the strength of faith.

Upravo loša savest može u?initi život zanimljivim.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

The Bible is God's love letter to us

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.