KIERKEGAARD35

No, the one who lovingly forgets himself, forgets his own suffering to consider another's, forgets all his own wretchedness in order to think of another's misery, forgets what he himself loses in order lovingly to look at another's: truly such a one is not forgotten. There is One who considers him: God in heaven; or love considers him. God is love, and when a man from love forgets himself, and thinks of the other man, God thinks of the lover. The self-lover is busy, he shrieks and shouts, and stands for his rights in order to make certain of not being forgotten--and yet he is forgotten; but the lover who forgets himself, he is remembered by love. There is One who thinks of him, and thereby it comes to pass that the lover gets what he gives. [Works of Love]

No, the truth shall suffer, or must suffer, in this world, yes it shall suffer, for this whole life is meant to be an examination. [1848]

Nor does one destroy the whole impression, having told a story, by ending up with, "But you realize of course that it was only a fairy story"--something which has also cropped up again more recently with people who have no sense at all of the poetic and who therefore corrupt the impression of every anecdote, etc. by initiating an investigation into its factual truth. [1837]

Not a joy over this or that, but a full-bodied shout of the soul... a heavenly refrain which suddenly interrupts our other songs, a joy which like a breath of air cools and refreshes, a puff from the trade winds which blow across the plains of Mamre to the eternal mansions. [10:30 a.m. 19 May 1838]

Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well, our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. [Fear and Trembling]

...not only he is in want who desires possession of what he does not have, but also he who desires the continued possession of what he has. [Concluding Unscientific Postcript]

Now and then, perhaps, memory wakens with horror, and remorse seems to promise new strength. But alas, this too lasts only for a good-sized moment. All of them have intentions, plans, resolutions for life, yes, for eternity. But the intention soon loses its youthful strength and fades away. The resolution is not firmly grounded and is unable to withstand opposition. It totters before circumstances and is altered by them. [Purity of Heart]

Now how are the sciences to help? Simply not at all, in no way whatsoever. They reduce everything to calm and objective observation --with the result that freedom is an inexplicable something.

...now since the Christian relgion has many times been rejected by those who were brought up in it, because they preferred all kinds of novelties, just as wholesome food is refused by a person who has never been hungry, in favor of sweets... how seldom is it considered, how seldom perhaps does a Christian earnestly and with a thankful heart dwell upon the idea of what his condition might have been if Christianity had not come into the world! [Works of Love]