Soren Kierkegaard

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Søren Kierkegaard

It’s better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion.

Søren Kierkegaard

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

Søren Kierkegaard

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

Søren Kierkegaard

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

Søren Kierkegaard

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it.

Søren Kierkegaard

Life has become a bitter drink to me, and yet it must be taken in drops, counted one by one.

Søren Kierkegaard

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.

Søren Kierkegaard

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Søren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Søren Kierkegaard