Quotes: Søren Kierkegaard

"What is anxiety? It is the next day. With whom, then, does the pagan contend in anxiety? With himself, with a delusion, because the next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength." 

–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 34.

Quotes: Søren Kierkegaard

"To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself."

–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic 

via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 78. 

Quotes: Søren Kierkegaard

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are." 

–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic 

Quotes: Søren Kierkegaard

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it ... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. ... Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right." 

–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic 

Source: Søren Kierkegaard, letter to Jette (1847) 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001.