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.'

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. 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
Anxiety: the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard
God creates out of nothing, wonderful, you say: yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Søren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
Some bend eternity into time for the imagination. Conceived in this way, eternity produces an enchanting effect. One does not know whether it is a dream or actuality. Soren Kierkegaard