Quotes Tagged With :kierkegaard

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?....

When I was very young and in the cave of Trophonius I forgot to laugh. Then, when I got older, when I....

Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom....

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means....

You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, life....

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

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this....

That you find Kierkegaard "frightful" has warmed the cockles of my heart. I find him simply insupportable....

Mine’: what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole....