“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”– Soren Kierkegaard Related Quotes “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”– Joseph Campbell “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”– Ayn Rand “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard