Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or
If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

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."

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard - "The Sickness Unto Death"
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

- Soren Kierkegaard