Fear and Trembling Quotes

“To strive against the whole world is a comfort, to strive with oneself is dreadful.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“In infinite resignation there is peace and repose; anyone who wants it, who has not debased himself by—what is still worse than being too proud—belittling himself, can discipline himself into making this movement, which in its pain reconciles one to existence.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling