755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart...

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.