By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
One faces the future with one's past.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
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