“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
More from Søren Kierkegaard on Life
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
“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.”
“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“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”