Soren Kierkegaard quotes
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. "
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
"If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much."
"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."
"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul."
"The most painful state of living is remembering the future."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
