KIERKEGAARD49

The universalization of the particular proposition "Marry or don't marry, you'll regret it either way" is a sort of resume of all life's wisdom, and the personal relationship in which a teacher should always stand to his disciple is best rendered by "You're very welcome". But you cannot say to someone what you nevertheless normally consider the best of all: "It's best that you go away and hang yourself", for then you would have to say: "Hang yourself or don't hang yourself, you'll regret it either way." [1841]

The whole of existence frightens me, from the smallest fly to the mystery of the Incarnation, everything is unintelligible to me, most of all myself; the whole of existence is poisoned in my sight, particularly myself. Great is my sorrow and without bounds; no man knows it, only God in heaven, and he will not console me; no man can console me, only God in heaven and we will not have mercy upon me. [1839]

The world is so weak that, when it thinks that a man who serves Christianity is one who is aesthetically incapable, they look down upon religion.

...theology would sell out faith at a bargain price. [Fear and Trembling]

There are critics who, with absolutely no eye for the individual, try to look at everything from a general point of view, and who therefore in order to be as general as possible ascend as high as they can until in fact all they see is a wide horizon, just because they have placed themselves too high. [2 November 35]

There are, in this respect, fortunate temperaments so easy to find. There are, in this respect, fortunate temperaments so decisively inclined in a particular direction that they faithfully follow the path once assigned to them, without being deterred for a moment by the thought that perhaps they should really be taking another. There are others who let themselves be so completely directed by their surroundings that they never become clear about what they are really after. [1 June 1835]

There are just two life-views, corresponding to man's twofold nature: the animal and spirit.
According to the one the task is to live, enjoy life, and put everything into that.
The other view is: the meaning of life is to die. ["Living and Dying", 1854]

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves. [The Journals]

...there are many things in heaven and earth which no philosopher has explained.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are....The paradox is not a concession but a category, an ontological definition which expresses the relation between an existing cognitive spirit and eternal truth. [Philosophical Fragments]

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they are as a rule the most interesting. [1837]