A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Anticipating one's own death causes deep internal distress.
- In plain terms
- Thinking about future death makes the speaker shudder.
- What can you take from it?
- The certainty of death is inherently unsettling.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you react to thoughts of your end?
- What is most scary about dying?
Another view
Some find thinking about death liberating rather than frightening.
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