When the danger is so great that death becomes the hope, then despair is the hopelessness of not even being able to die.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source The Sickness Unto Death
Topic danger hopelessness
Date 1849
Language English
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Note Translated
 by Howard V. Hong and 
Edna H. Hong
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