Quotes by danish authors

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Backwards Must Only Understood Lived

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom Sunshine Living Flower Enough Must Just Just Living Little

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard

God Prayer Change Changes Him Does Prays Who

Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen

Music Words Fail Where Speaks

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Thoughts Result Our Always Dominant Expresses

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Reality Problem Solved Experienced

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen

Life Wonderful Tale Most Fairy Fairy Tale Itself

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard

Lose Dare Oneself Footing

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen

Inspirational Life God Man Life Is A Every Fingers Written Tale Fairy

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard

Rule Tyrant Martyr Over His Begins Dies

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis

Will Before Gone Hundred Hundred Times Split Had Perhaps Know Look Without Rock Hammering His Times Crack Did Blow Stone Much Showing Away Last Two

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr

Best Democracy Dictatorship Secrecy Weapon Openness Should

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard

Love Love Is Gives Takes

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

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Soren Kierkegaard

God Nature Prayer Change Rather Prays Influence Who Function

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Niels Bohr

Made Everything Call Real Regarded Cannot Things

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard

Patience Reap Immediately Sown Where Cannot Necessary

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard

Me Man Struggle Woman Giving Birth Extremity Tell Something Could Thus Hour Look Cry His Labor Begins Intended Listen Ends Dying Whether Then Enjoyment Last

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Great Thoughts Nothing Else Paradox Paradoxes Embryo Only Great Souls Call Souls Passions Intellectual Intellectual Life Than Pathos Just Which Grandiose Really Who Exposed Thinker

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard

Me People Understanding Complaint About Understand Them Poorly Even