755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual...

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self