Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.
Soren KierkegaardI would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
Soren KierkegaardOut of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
Soren KierkegaardIt seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
Soren Kierkegaard