755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

... all comparisons injure.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays

If you think you understand, it isn't God.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.