Quotes by : Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like....

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become....

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none....

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this....

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's....

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions....

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection....

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.