(10 quotes found)
“Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays”
Soren Kierkegaard
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“Once you label me, you negate me”
“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.”
