“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
More from Søren Kierkegaard on Life
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.”
“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
“Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...”
“- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”