KIERKEGAARD56

What is youth? A dream. What is love? The substance of a dream. [Either/Or, VOL. I: DIAPSALMATA]

What it all comes down to is that they are unable to conceive of a clever person who doesn't covet status and power. They take this as a given (for good and stupidity are the same) and accordingly draw the conclusion: He must be vain even if we can't prove it, because he's so clever--clever enough to do the opposite of what vanity enjoins. But it is the initial assumption that betrays them.
Yet how many lives are wasted in this confounded chattering about others. [16 March 1846]

What love does, that it is; what it is, that it does--and at one and the same time: at the moment it goes out of itself (the direction outward) it is in itself (the direction inward); and at the very moment it is in itself, it thereby goes out of itself--so that this outgoing and this return, this return and this outgoing, are simultaneously one and the same. [Works of Love]

What now shall we call such a Teacher, one who restores the lost condition and gives the learner the Truth? Let us call him Saviour, for he saves the learner from his bondage and from himself; let us call him Redeemer, for he redeems the learner from the captivity into which he had plunged himself, and no captivity is so terrible and so impossible to break, as that in which the individual keeps himself. [Philosophical Fragments]

...What our age needs is education. And so this is what happened: God chose a man who also needed to be educated, and educated him privatissime, so that he might be able to teach others from his own experience.

What people look on as self-love and absence of sympathy can also sometimes be melancholy. If a person is joyful and happy he is also more open; but if deep down he feels unhappy he closes himself up more, but htat doesn't necessarily mean that it is self-love; sometimes it can amount almost to a concern for others, not letting them notice how unhappy he is. [1848]

What prompts a beginning is wonder. What one begins with is a resolution. [1846]

What Scheleiermacher calls "Religion" and the Hegelians "Faith" is at the bottom nothing but the first immediate condition for everything--the vital fluidum--the spiritual atmosphere we breathe in--and which cannot therefore with justice be designated by those words.... [September 11, 1836]

What the conception of God or an eternal happiness is to effect in the individual is, that he transform his entire existence in relation thereto, and this transformation is a process of daying away from the immediate. This is slowly brought about, but finally he will feel himself confined within the absolute concept of God; for the absolute conception of God does not consist in having such a conception at every moment. [Concluding Unscientific Postscript]