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

“To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”

“I cannot shut my eyes and plunge confidently into the absurd; that is for me an impossibility, but I do not praise myself for it. I am convinced that God is love; this thought has for me a primordial lyrical validity. When it is present to me I am unspeakably happy; when it is absent I long for it more intensely than the lover for the object of his love. But I do not believe; this courage I lack.”

“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”

“Can a person, then, do any more than love? Have thought and language any higher expression for loving than always to give thanks? Not at all, it has a lower, a humbler expression. Even the person who is always willing to give thanks nevertheless loves according to his own perfection, and a person can truly love God only when he loves him according to his own imperfection. Which love is this? It is the love that is born of repentance, which is more beautiful than any other love, for in it you love God. It is more faithful and more fervent than all other love, for in repentance it is God who loves you.”

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”

““There is no end”

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.”

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”