Soren Kierkegaard

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Søren Kierkegaard

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

Søren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.

Søren Kierkegaard

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

Søren Kierkegaard

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Søren Kierkegaard

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

Søren Kierkegaard

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.

Søren Kierkegaard

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Søren Kierkegaard

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Søren Kierkegaard