Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

• The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Unhappy Person, Persons

• Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, People, Pleasure

• ...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Remember, Made

• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

• In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Long, Individual

  "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions" by Soren Kierkegaard, 1844.

• Future is everything that past has forgotten.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Forgotten

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