According to Kierkegaard, "If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power which writhing with obscure passions produced everything that is great and everything that is insignificant, if a bottomless void never satiated lay hidden beneath all-what then would life be but despair?"

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Kierkegaard believed that without the concept of eternal consciousness and meaning in life, all that would be left is a chaotic and hopeless existence leading to despair.

According to Kierkegaard, "If There Were No Eternal Consciousness in a Man