Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no faith without risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Future is everything that past has forgotten.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
- Soren Kierkegaard
Don't forget to love yourself.
- Soren Kierkegaard