755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

To love another person is to help them love God.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.