Soren Kierkegaard — "My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known."

"I see it all, I understand it all, I grasp it all, but I do not want to obey."

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed."

"I do not call myself a Christian."

"The aesthetic is the immediate, the ethical is the choice, the religious is the infinite passion of inwardness."

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so…"