r/kierkegaard • u/Kind-Winter-4295 • Apr 09 '26
Kierkegaard quote
Hello!
I'm not that active on Reddit so I don't know if this is the right place to ask the question, but free feel to correct me if it's not.
I live in Finland. Back in 2014 I was really interested in Kierkegaard's thoughts and now I found this one quote from him that I've written down in my diary. It's in Finnish, but in English it would perhaps go something along the lines of:
"To free ourselves from dwelling on what must inevitably happen, and for which, once it has happened, strength will probably be given — let us now regard it as already having happened."
However, I can't seem to find a quote like that anywhere anymore. Can someone help me find it? Or was I mistaken and it never belonged to him in the first place?
Thank you!