Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

• Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

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  Sadness, People, Dancing

• It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

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  Religious, Courage, Grieving

• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

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  Christian, Giving, Joy

• Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

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  Art, Young Friends, Joy

• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

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  Joy, Moments, Splendid

  "Either/or, Vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 20, 1987.

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