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

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”

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

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

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.”

“...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.”

“A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way.”

“Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.”

“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”

“Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.”

“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”