Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Tag: Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: “Sing for us soon again;”