The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
Soren KierkegaardGod creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing
Soren KierkegaardThe more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.
Soren Kierkegaard