KIERKEGAARD42

Sufferers whose tongues run easily over the story of their sufferings neither labor nor are heavy laden. [Training in Christianity]

Take someone who is really in love. While really in love it never occurs to him to be able to comprehend it; rather it seems inconceivable--oh, lovable humility! --that the girl can love him. Then let him get the girl. And let the years pass--and then perhaps there will come a time when he no longer tingles with passion; no, the passion has quite subsided and he has become inordinately clever, that is to say, quite stupid. His having come to this point will be recognizable by how far he thinks he can perfectly understand his infatuation for this or that reason. ["Distances", 1852]

Talent is to be ranked according to the sensation it produces; Genius according to the opposition it arouses (religious character according to the scandal it gives). Talent adapts itself immediately and directly; Genius does not adapt itself to the given circumstances. Talent warms up what is given (to take a metaphor from cooking) and sees to its appearance; Genius brings something new.... "Genius--Talent"]

Tender, frail, and weak, in almost every way denied the physical qualities required to make me a whole human being like the others; melancholy, soul-sick, in so many ways deeply and inwardly unfortunate: one thing was give to me--a mental superiority; probably so that I would not be completely defenseless. [The Journals]

That's how it is with humans, and with us humans; we are so easily content to find new and ingenious expressions for human meanness, selfishness, etc., but not being selfish oneself is something one would much rather put off. [1849]

The ability to forget is conditioned upon the method of remembering, but this again depends upon the mode of experiencing... No moment must be permitted a greater significance than that it can be forgotten when convenient; each moment ought, however, to have so much significance that it can be recollected at will. [Either/Or, VOL. I: THE ROTATION METHOD]

...the Christian teaching is to love the neighbor, to love the whole race, all men, even one's enemy, and to make no exception, either of partiality or of dislike.
There is only One whom a man may with the truth of the eternal love better than himself, that is God. [Works of Love]

The concept of orthodoxy is like that of consistency. Many think the latter means always doing the same thing, and would presumably insist that because one takes an umbrella to walk in the rain one should do the same in sunshine. [28 January 1835]

The crowd will always regard a man of great understanding as lacking judgement. Quite certainly the objection they raise against him, which is presumably what makes their understanding superior, will be nothing more nor less than one of the factors to which he himself has given thorough consideration. [1846]