# Quote — Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

> Someone in despair despairs over something. So, for a moment, it seems, but only for a moment. That same instant the true despair shows itself, or despair in its true guise. In despairing over something he was really despairing over himself, and he wants now to be rid of himself.

- Author: [Søren Kierkegaard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard.md)
- Book: [The Sickness Unto Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/the-sickness-unto-death.md)
- Page: 49
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/the-sickness-unto-death/someone-in-despair

## More from this book

> This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

p. 114 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/the-sickness-unto-death/this-fact-that.md)

> Out of love, God becomes man. He says: Here you see what it is to be a human being; but he adds: Take care, for I am also God — blessed is he who takes no offense at me.

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/the-sickness-unto-death/out-of-love.md)

> The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife etc., is sure to be noticed.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/the-sickness-unto-death/the-greatest-danger.md)