by
Sören Kierkegaard
[Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1941]
Preface
Despair is the sickness, not the cure. In Christian terminology death is the expression for the greatest spiritual sickness, and the cure is simply to die, to "die from" despair.
Introduction Only the Christian knows what is meant by the sickness unto death. As a Christian he acquires a courage which the natural man does not know. This courage he acquires by learning to fear the still more dreadful.