“ When death is the greatest danger, we hope for life; but when we learn to know the even greater danger, we hope for death. 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
Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
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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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