Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
Perfect love means to love the one through whom one became unhappy. Soren Kierkegaard
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. Soren Kierkegaard
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential – for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. Soren Kierkegaard
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation. Soren Kierkegaard
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard
My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love. Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy. Soren Kierkegaard
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. Soren Kierkegaard
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Soren Kierkegaard