Author: Søren Kierkegaard

Cites

• Edward Young (1)
  • IN: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (1992) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul? Reason alone baptized?
    FROM: The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, (1742), Poem, US

Cited by

• David Markson (1)
  • IN: Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What an extraordinary change takes place... when for the first time the fact that everything depends upon how a thing is thought first enters the consciousness, when, in consequence, thought in its absoluteness replaces an apparent reality.
    FROM: NULL, (1842), NULL, Denmark
• Thomas Bernhard (1)
  • IN: Old Masters (1989) Fiction, Comedy, German
    EPIGRAPH: The punishment matches the guilt: to be deprived of all appetite for life, to be brought to the highest degree of weariness of life.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• Geoff Dyer (1)
  • IN: The Search (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fairy-tales and legends often tell of a knight who suddenly catches sight of a rare bird of which he then sets off in pursuit, since in the beginning it seemed quite close, but then it flies off again, until at last night falls. The knight is separated from his companions and lost in the wilderness in which he now finds himself.
    FROM: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening, (1849), Book, Denmark
• Joseph O'Neill (1)
  • IN: The Dog (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I feel as a chessman must feel when the opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
    FROM: Either/Or, (1843), Book, Denmark
• Brendan Kiely (1)
  • IN: The Gospel of Winter (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The question is not what am I to believe, but what am I to do?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• Lauren Miller (1)
  • IN: Parallel (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
    FROM: The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard, (1844), Book, Denmark
• James/Juno Dawson (1)
  • IN: Margot and Me (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
    FROM: NULL, (1843), NULL, Denmark
• Claire J. Griffin (1)
  • IN: Nowhere to Run (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is lived forward but understood backward.
    FROM: Journals IV A 164, (1843), Book, Denmark
• David Hewson (1)
  • IN: The Killing II (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward.
    FROM: Journals IV A 164 (1843), (1843), Book, Denmark
• Patricia Highsmith (1)
  • IN: A Game for the Living (1958) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Faith has taken all chances into account... if you are willing to understand that you must love, then is your love eternally secure.
    FROM: Works of Love, (1847), Book, Denmark
• Melanie Gideon (1)
  • IN: Valley of the Moon (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
    FROM: NULL, (1844), NULL, Denmark
• Simon Tay (1)
  • IN: City of Small Blessings (2009) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
    FROM: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (1938), Journal, Denmark
• Kate Racculia (2)
  • IN: Rhapsody, Bellweather (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
  • IN: Bellweather Rhapsody (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• Sergio Ramirez (1)
  • IN: A thousand Deaths Plus One (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is a rule of refinement, when writing about and making use of the vicissitudes of our life, never to tell the truth.
    FROM: Diary, (1960), Book, Denmark
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: My Sister, My Love (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Despair is a sickness of the spirit, of the self, and accordingly can take three forms: in despair not to be conscious of having a self; in despair not to will to be oneself; in despair to will to be oneself.
    FROM: The Sickness unto Death, (1849), NULL, Denmark
• Barry Eisler (1)
  • IN: Graveyard of Memories (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward.
    FROM: Journals IV, (1843), Journal, Denmark
• Philip Meyer (1)
  • IN: American Rust (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If there were no eternal consciousness in a man... if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
    FROM: Fear and Trembling, (1843), Book, Denmark
• Terry McMillan (1)
  • IN: Getting To Happy (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We create ourselves by our choices.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• Amanda Leduc (1)
  • IN: The Miracles of Ordinary Men (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And is it not true in this instance also that one whom God blesses he curses in the same breath?
    FROM: Fear and Trembling, (1843), Book, Denmark
• Charlotte Greig (1)
  • IN: A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She needs no worldly admiration, as little as Abraham needs our tears, for she was no heroine and he no hero, but both of them became greater than that, not by any means by being relieved of the distress, the agony, and the paradox, but because of these.
    FROM: Fear and Trembling, (1843), Book, Denmark
• Jeanne Stein (1)
  • IN: Haunted (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward.
    FROM: NULL, (1843), Journal, Denmark
• John Benditt (1)
  • IN: The Boatmaker (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But if the self does not become itself, it is in despair, whether it knows that or not.
    FROM: The Sickness unto Death, (1849), Book, Denmark
• Jason Porter (1)
  • IN: Why Are You So Sad? (2014) Literary Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    FROM: The Present Age, (1846), Book, Denmark
• Cristovão Tezza (1)
  • IN: The Eternal Son (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A son is like a mirror in which the father beholds himself, and for the son the father too is like a mirror in which he beholds himself in the time to come.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• John Updike (1)
  • IN: Roger's Version (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O infinite majesty, even if you were not love, even if you were cold in your infinite majesty I could not cease to love you, I need something majestic to love.
    FROM: Journals XP 154, (None), Book, Denmark
• Dawn Farnham (1)
  • IN: Finding Maria (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards But it must be lived forwards
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• Cheng-E Tham (1)
  • IN: Surrogate Protocol (2017) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards But it must be lived forwards.
    FROM: Journalen JJ:167, (1843), NULL, Denmark
• Jeffery Deaver (1)
  • IN: The October List (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
    FROM: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844, (1844), Book, NULL