Søren Kierkegaard

The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under the impression that life is simply a matter of understanding more and more, and that if it were granted to them to live longer, that life would continue to be one long continuous growth in understanding. How many of them ever experience the maturity of discovering that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life__ highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Prayer is listening.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!