List of quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
by Soren Kierkegaard
"I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius."
by Soren Kierkegaard
"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."
by Either-Or Soren Kierkegaard
"The most painful state of living is remembering the future."
by Soren Kierkegaard
"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."
by Soren Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death
"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."
by Soren Kierkegaard