Soren Kierkegaard:

Despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction, this sickness in the self; it is to be eternally dying, to die and yet not die, to die the death.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

Context

Sickness Unto Death

Date / Period

1849

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36427/36427-h/36427-h.htm

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