Kierkegaard Quotes

Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

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.

Prayer is listening.

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

The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.

As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.