Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Dream, Struggle

• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Men, People

• May new sufferings torment your soul.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Soul, Suffering, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

• There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hate, Evil, Suffering

  "Phaedo" by Plato,

• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Ideas, Differences

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

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  Religious, Courage, Grieving

• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1845.

• A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Understanding, Suffering

• A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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