Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. – Soren Kierkegaard

Other quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Death
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Music
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Time
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Life
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. – François Truffaut

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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray. – Proverb

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My greatest fear: repetition. – Max Frisch

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I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good. – Sharon Gless

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