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#1

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

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#2

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

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#3

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#4

“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: pleasure

383 likes

#5

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#6

“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, depresion, loneliness, mood-swings, solitude, suicidal-thoughts, suicide

338 likes

#7

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93372 likes

#8

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

1561 likes

#9

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: judgement

1393 likes

#10

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers

812 likes

#11

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: sincerity, skepticism, suffering

837 likes

#12

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, hope, philosophy

648 likes

#13

“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#14

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty

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