Soren Kierkegaard

Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep’s clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf that is put to tending the sheep.

Søren Kierkegaard

She awakens first at the touch of love; before that time she is a dream, yet in her dream life we can distinguish two stages: in the first, love dreams about her; in the second, she dreams about love.

Søren Kierkegaard

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Søren Kierkegaard

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.

Søren Kierkegaard

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Søren Kierkegaard

The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but ‘time’, the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.

Søren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Søren Kierkegaard

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

Søren Kierkegaard

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Søren Kierkegaard

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

Søren Kierkegaard