More quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere."
"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."