More quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."
"Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing."
"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"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 these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."