Soren Kierkegaard Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”

“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.”

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”

“At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.”