The person who gets lost in possibility soars high with the boldness of despair; he for whom everything became necessity overstrains himself in life and is crushed in despair
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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