Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

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

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.