Life, Death & Other Natural Phenomena – Page 31

Defensive

To be on the defensive all your life means that life was overwhelming and that others didn’t let you live. Or, you just imagined it.

Disappointment

J.S. Bach wanted, as a kid, to become a military officer, A. Einstein a pilot, M. Lermontov – A. Pushkin, etc., and none of them become what they wanted. How disappointing their lives must have been!

Curiosity

Curious are those who didn’t go through much in life.

Life and death

Life and death aren’t opposites, but complementary.

Eternal life

Most people wish for eternal life. What a hell that would be!! Most of us don’t deserve the time that’s given to us.

Escape

In my opinion, jails aren’t necessary: could anyone of us escape, after all?

Mortality

Whenever I think about my own mortality, it always seems impossible that I would die.

Self-forgetfulness

At the core of all human activities is self-forgetfulness, as a device for dealing with the temporal nature of our lives.

https://medium.com/meta-life/self-forgetfulness-9caff04b2f6

Life

In your thirties, you believe that life is still in front of you;
In your forties, you still believe that, but a suspicion starts to creep in;
In your fifties, you are wondering where it’s gone.

Hope

All we can hope for in this life is to die on time.