Quotes

  1. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

    Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety
  2. Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

    Søren Kierkegaard
  3. It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

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

    Søren Kierkegaard
  5. Once you label me you negate me.

    Søren Kierkegaard
  6. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

    Søren Kierkegaard
  7. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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

    Søren Kierkegaard
  9. The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

    Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
  10. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.