“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

Soren Kierkegaard

“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and so spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither by work nor at play, neither by day nor by night.”

The Concept of Dread, Soren Kierkegaard

“Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation, but from deliberation.”

The Present Age, Soren Kierkegaard

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

The Sickness unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard