Søren Kierkegaard

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Let others complain that the age is wicked; my complaint is that it is paltry; for it lacks passion.

The greatest danger, that of losing one’s own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true.

Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it. Marry or do not marry, you will regret it either way.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self.