At times, he was quite hopefull, yet the doubt and his sinn sonsciousness carried him away, and after one year, he definitively broke the engagement. Later, Kierkegaard used his romantic history in his writings. Regine Olsen was later happily married, but Kierkegaard never forgot her, and he dedicated the whole of his literary oeuvre to her. The pseudonym oeuvres form an essential bloc within his authorship. Herein his philosophy of different phases and outlook on life was presented.
Most people run so fast after pleasure, that they surpass it without noticing.
People are unfair. They never explore the range of freedoms which they are granted, but demand to explore the kind of freedoms which they have not. Among all ridiculous things it seems to me that the most ridiculous is to be busy, to be a man who hastens when he eats or does his errant in a quick manner. When I see a fly land on such a businessman's nose, or mud is thrown at him by the acceleration of a yet hastier car passing by, or Knippelsbro Copenhagen Bridge is blocked for the sake of a boat passing under it, or a stone fall down from a house and kills him, then I laugh out of full loungs. Being idle is, as people tell, the root of all evil.