When Death Is the Greatest Danger, One Hopes for Life
When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. – Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death
Kierkegaard – My Depression is the Most Faithful Mistress
You can survive feelings like, “My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Fooled – Kierkegaard – Relation Between Truth and Belief
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard, Thoughts of God
Kierkegaard – People Exchange Thought for Speech: Freedom
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ― Søren Kierkegaard
Love Discovers Truths About Individuals That Others Cannot See
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all.
Life Must Be Understood Backwards, But Lived Forwards
It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find […]