Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Smile, God, Children

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

• Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Dream, Struggle

• Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Sleep, Difficult

• Sleeping is the height of genius

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sleep, Genius, Height

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.42, Penguin UK

• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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