Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

He who despairs is wrong.

Inner strength is very important.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

I think every player hits a little bit of doubt. But if you are strong, you are supposed to be strong mentally because that's our job and you know what you can do. So you are like, 'A'ight cool, I'ma be all right. I'm going to figure this out.'