December 2009
5 posts
“…And it was the delight of his eyes and his heart’s desire. And he...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, recounting in prose his break up with Regina, Journals, 1842
“And so we parted. I spent the whole night crying on my bed. But the next day I...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, after breaking off his engagement to his fiancée Regina, Journals, 1841
“What did she do? In her womanly despair she overstepped the boundary. She...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, after breaking off his engagement to his fiancée Regina, Journals, 1841
“But insofar as I was what, alas, I was, I had to say that I could be happier in...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, breaks off his engagement to his fiancée Regina, Journals, 1841
November 2009
14 posts
“And now of course my melancholy woke once more. Her devotion once again put the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, conflicted in his feelings for his fiancée Regina, Journals, 1841
“But inwardly; the next day I saw that I had made a false step. A penitent such...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, the day after proposing to his beloved Regina, Journals, 1841
“On September 8 I left my house with the firm purpose of deciding the matter. We...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, proposing to his beloved Regina, Journals, 1841
“Mysticism has not the patience to wait for God’s revelation.”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1839
“People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1838
“Sometimes, there is such a tumult in my head that it feels as though the roof...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1838
“The reason why I far prefer the autumn to the spring is because in the autumn...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1837
“Paganism never gets nearer the truth than Pilate: What is truth? And with that...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1837
“…A situation.
A man wishes to write a novel in which one of the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1837
“Everything is a question of ear—the rules of grammar—the dictates of...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1836
“I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, 1836
“What would be the use of discovering so-called objective truth, of working...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, 1835
“… What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, 1835
“As one goes from the inn through Sortebro across the bare fields that run along...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, 1835. Age 22.
“My whole life is an epigram calculated to make people aware.”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, 1848