Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are...

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are...

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal...

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal...

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

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

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

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

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily...

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily...

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it...

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it...

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

Take it and return it: the kiss of love

Take it and return it: the kiss of love

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

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

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages...

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages...

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have...

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have...

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.