Soren Kierkegaard Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Soren Kierkegaard quotes, Soren Kierkegaard sayings, and Soren Kierkegaard proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

[D]epression is something real that one does not delete with the stroke of the pen. Søren Kierkegaard
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. Søren Kierkegaard
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is the authentic pathos of the intellectual life, and just as only great souls are susceptible to passions, so are only great thinkers susceptible to what I call Sparadoxes, which are nothing other than grandiose thoughts, not yet fully developed. Soren Kierkegaard
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. Soren Kierkegaard
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. Soren Kierkegaard
Faith itself is a wonder, and everything that is true of the paradox is also true of faith. Soren Kierkegaard
The eternal truth has come into existence in time. That is the paradox Soren Kierkegaard
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life, but has also spoken for us by his death. Soren Kierkegaard
In the realm of the spirit, all worldly differences, talents, and bank accounts will have no purchase. Soren Kierkegaard
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. Soren Kierkegaard
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. Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
Beware false prophets come to you in wolf's clothing but inwardly are sheep. Soren Kierkegaard
Even what appears to be the purest feeling could still be a deception. Soren Kierkegaard
Repetition is a beloved wife of whom one never tires because it is only the new of which one tires. Soren Kierkegaard
One never tires of the old, and when one has it before oneself one is happy, and only a person who does not delude himself that repetition ought to be something new, for then he tires of it, is genuinely happy. Soren Kierkegaard
It requires youthfulness to hope and youthfulness to recollect, but It requires courage to will repetition. Soren Kierkegaard
He who does not grasp that life is repetition and that this is the beauty of life, has condemned himself and deserves nothing better than what will happen to him. Soren Kierkegaard
Repetition is actuality and the earnestness of existence. He who wills repetition is genuinely mature. Soren Kierkegaard
Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety: the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is life's inescapable accompaniment, its constant undertow. Every step we take offers it an opportunity; to avoid anxiety we would have to lock ourselves away. Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Soren Kierkegaard
Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store. Soren Kierkegaard
The self in despair is satisfied with paying attention to itself, which is supposed to bestow infinite interest and significance upon his enterprises, but it is precisely this that makes them imaginary constructions. Soren Kierkegaard
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. Soren Kierkegaard
The tragic and the comic are the same in as much as both are contradiction, but the tragic is suffering contradiction, and the comic is painless contradiction. Søren Kierkegaard