Soren Kierkegaard

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Søren Kierkegaard

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see.

Søren Kierkegaard

Man is the synthesis of the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.

Søren Kierkegaard

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Søren Kierkegaard

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Søren Kierkegaard

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

Søren Kierkegaard

Metaphorically speaking, a person’s ideas must be the building he lives in – otherwise there is something terribly wrong.

Søren Kierkegaard

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Søren Kierkegaard

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

Søren Kierkegaard

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Søren Kierkegaard