Diary entry

Shown here is an entry from February 1846, in which Kierkegaard recounts how his father cursed God, an event which played a lasting role in his self-understanding – even after his father’s death eight years earlier: “How appalling for the man who, as a lad watching sheep on the Jutland heath, suffering painfully, hungry and exhausted, once stood on a hill and cursed God — and the man was unable to forget it when he was eighty-two years old.”