Kierkegaard Quotes

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward. – Soren Kierkegaard

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

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world. – Soren Kierkegaard

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. – Soren Kierkegaard

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

What labels me negates me. – Soren Kierkegaard

Don’t forget to love yourself. – Soren Kierkegaard

Not to dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard

The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming. – Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, etc. is bound to be noticed. – Soren Kierkegaard

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. – Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. – Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard

What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream. – Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Quotes part 2

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard

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

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. – Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard

What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream. – Soren Kierkegaard

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard

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

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. – Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard

What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream. – Soren Kierkegaard

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life. – Soren Kierkegaard

Once you label me you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. – Soren Kierkegaard

To be human is to have a choice. – Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard

The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist. – Soren Kierkegaard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. – Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – 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

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. – Soren Kierkegaard

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. – Soren Kierkegaard

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. – Soren Kierkegaard

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. – Soren Kierkegaard

Don’t forget to love yourself. – Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard

Action can only be understood and represented by the opposite of the Hegelian principle. – Soren Kierkegaard

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on the way. – Soren Kierkegaard

They are given over to as philosophers and scholars often are, to putting everything in question. – Soren Kierkegaard

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful; when it is absent, I long and yearn… My thought does not clasp a theoretic principle, but my thought is my love, my longing, my yearning, my sighing, my singing, my prayer. – Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss — an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. — is sure to be noticed. – Soren Kierkegaard

When you label me, you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard

At the bottom of winning and losing there is a secret law of prize giving. Only with a capacity to lose can one win. – Soren Kierkegaard

When you label me, you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard