Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Soren Kierkegaard

• Melancholy
• Sweetheart

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reality

• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  

  Plato
  • City
  • Politics
  • Physician

• I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Influence
  • Creation

• ...serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Serious
  • Difficulties
  • Vanish

• The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Soul
  • Depth
  • Approval

• Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

  

  William Blake
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Kill

• Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

  

  John Murray
  • Hope
  • Education
  • Productive

• A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Friend

• Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

  

  Plato
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Glory

• I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wish

• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Stars
  • Laughter

• My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Melancholy
  • Sweetheart