Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

  

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• People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.

  

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• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

  

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• If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

  

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• I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.

  

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• Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

  

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• Halloween is the day I wish I had boobs the most

  

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• It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

  

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• Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

  

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• Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Earth
  • Dead
  • Breast

• When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still.

  

  William Blake
  • Laughing
  • Breast
  • Voices Of Children

• A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Children
  • Stupid
  • Breast

• It wasn't my mother's laugh, the obscene laughter of a woman who knows. In Nella there was something chaste and yet vulgar, it was the laugh of an aging virgin that asailed me and pushed me to laugh, too, but in a forced way. I saw myself growing old, with that laugh of malicious innocence in my breast. I thought: I'll end up laughing like that, too.

  

  Elena Ferrante
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• I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).

  

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• Every time I say anything, people seize on it for all kinds of meanings so I am uncomfortable with talking. At least this way, I can think about the answers and phrase them carefully.

  

  P. V. Narasimha Rao
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• I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

  

  Paul Rhys
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• To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Breast
  • Groan
  • Grumble