Life Quotes Quote by Soren Kierkegaard — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”

“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”