Soren Kierkegaard Quotes about Past

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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

Past, Unhappy Person, Persons

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Soren Kierkegaard

Past, Forgotten

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Past, People, Pleasure

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Soren Kierkegaard

Past, Remember, Made

In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

Soren Kierkegaard

Past, Long, Individual

"Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions" by Soren Kierkegaard, 1844.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fall, Past, Men

"Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.