Søren Kierkegaard

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

Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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

Once you label me you negate me.

Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

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

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

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