An idea from The Sickness Unto Death

You already know a smaller version of this. A day you cannot stand being the person who has to walk through it. You want out of you, not out of the world. That wish is treated as a sickness of the spirit.

From The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard

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