755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

The dread of sin can sometimes in effect drive a person into sin through dread.

Repetition is actuality and the earnestness of existence. He who wills repetition is genuinely mature.

What, then, is depression? It is hysteria of the spirit.

Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

There is something unexplainable in depression [Tungsind]. A person with a sorrow or a worry knows why he sorrows or worries. If a depressed person is asked what the reason is, what it is that weighs [tynge] on him, he will answer: I do not know; I cannot explain it. Therein lies the limitlessness of depression.

The self in despair is satisfied with paying attention to itself, which is supposed to bestow infinite interest and significance upon his enterprises, but it is precisely this that makes them imaginary constructions.

The tragic and the comic are the same in as much as both are contradiction, but the tragic is suffering contradiction, and the comic is painless contradiction.