"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
ExperienceView Quote
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.“
-Soren Kierkegaard
posted in Age
Other Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Discover more inspiring quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
-Soren Kierkegaard
FreedomView Quote
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
-Soren Kierkegaard
LifeView Quote
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
-Soren Kierkegaard
NatureView Quote
"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
-Soren Kierkegaard
GodView Quote
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierkegaard
LoveView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
-Willa Cather
AgeView Quote
"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
-Tom Stoppard
AgeView Quote
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
-Bertrand Russell
AgeView Quote
"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
-Robert Browning
AgeView Quote
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
-Albert Einstein
AgeView Quote
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
-Marshall McLuhan
AgeView Quote