755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.