So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
Soren KierkegaardI am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
Soren KierkegaardI feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren KierkegaardI found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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