On the Shortness of Life by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

On the Shortness of Life



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ISBN: 9780143036326
Page: 112
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Steve Jobs also had some perceptive insights into the shortness of life. Though it has been years since I've had a meaningful relationship with either of them, losing them has affected me deeply. The stark reminders of the fragility of life and of the shortness of life have been bitter pills to swallow. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. I stumbled upon a great essay during a thesis writing break today. And yet death is the destination we all share. I wanted to take just a minute to address this, Broken was a quick tale, an important but small chapter in Sienna's life. A Short Note on the Shortness of Broken and Pricing. The Shortness of Life Forbids Us Long Hopes Yesterday I discussed Wenlock Edge, by A. Emphysema is a chronic disorder caused by the gradual destruction of the alveoli, or the air sacs in the lungs, causing breathing difficulty and shortness of breath. He once said, “No one wants to die. It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. I've tried writing something similar in the past, but never found the eloquence to do the topic justice. I'm not well-read in the classics, but a few pieces have been important sources of meaning to me over the years--most notably Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Housman, in which he tells us that the emotional gale of human life soon wears itself out from its own force and disappears.

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