755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.