It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
More Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard:
What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen and who has chosen me And this power would command her to be true to me does she then need to be so commanded And is she to be true to me only because a third party commands it, one whom she therefore loves more than meSoren Kierkegaard
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.
Soren Kierkegaard
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.
Soren Kierkegaard
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.
Soren Kierkegaard
Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard
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