Despair is indeed that dialectical. Thus, also in Christian terminology death is indeed the expression for the state of deepest spiritual wretchedness, and yet the cure is simply to die, to die to the world.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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