Madi

“If you really thought life would never end, he argues, then nothing could ever genuinely matter, because you’d never be faced with having to decide whether or not to use a portion of your precious life on something.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“It is by consciously confronting the certainty of death, and what follows from the certainty of death, that we finally become truly present for our lives.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?”
― Edvard Munch