Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances
death
A selected quote by Søren Aabye Kierkegaard.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances
Related
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
The poetry of the earth is never dead