755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

Even what appears to be the purest feeling could still be a deception.

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Repetition is a beloved wife of whom one never tires because it is only the new of which one tires.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

One never tires of the old, and when one has it before oneself one is happy, and only a person who does not delude himself that repetition ought to be something new, for then he tires of it, is genuinely happy.

It requires youthfulness to hope and youthfulness to recollect, but It requires courage to will repetition.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith – when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith – this is subjectivity, at its height.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

He who does not grasp that life is repetition and that this is the beauty of life, has condemned himself and deserves nothing better than what will happen to him.