Soren Kierkegaard Quotes & Sayings

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”

“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”

“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.”