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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard
Music, Beautiful, Heart

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Teacher, Teaching

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard
God, Religious, Doe
"Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper, p. 59 (July 7, 1838), 1959.

Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Christian, Dream, Struggle

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer, Silent
Soren Kierkegaard (1956). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

Soren Kierkegaard
Despair, Form

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Soren Kierkegaard
Faith, Inspiration, Silence

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Soren Kierkegaard
Patience, Be Patient, Reap

We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

Soren Kierkegaard
Destruction, Ifs

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Soren Kierkegaard
Faithful, Melancholy, Sweetheart
"Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, translated in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 43, 1843.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

Soren Kierkegaard
Fear, Thinking, Atheism
"Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1846.

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.

Soren Kierkegaard
Death, Struggle, Men

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

Soren Kierkegaard
Believe, Thinking, Fire
"Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard as quotes in "The Point of View" by Robert L. Perkins, (p. 241), 2010.

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

Soren Kierkegaard
Deception, Promise, Doe

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness, Patience, Time
Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Soren Kierkegaard
Past, Forgotten

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Needs, Should

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Soren Kierkegaard
Neutrality, Standpoint

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

Soren Kierkegaard
Limits, Persons, Resourceful

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

Soren Kierkegaard
Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Soren Kierkegaard
Adversity, Common, Conflict

Don't forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Positive, Compassion

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Soren Kierkegaard
Judging, Outcomes, Action

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Soren Kierkegaard
Religious, Religion, Helping

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

Soren Kierkegaard
Have Faith, Youth, Hoping For The Best
Soren Kierkegaard (2005). “Fear and Trembling”, p.21, Penguin UK

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