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Boredom
With extended lifespan comes opportunities to learn a new skill, enjoy a new hobby, or invest time in new activities. With many additional years of good health, could people become bored with life?
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"The rapid progress true science now makes occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon."
"The rapid progress true science now makes occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter...Agriculture may diminish its Labour and double its Produce; all Diseases may, by sure means, be prevented or cured, not even excepting that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standard. O that moral Science were in as fair a way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and that human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity."
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is not lost by dying...
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
...what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- D. P. Barron
"Due to lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled."
Due to lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled.
-Anonymous
Do not all charms fly, at the touch of cold philosophy?
Do not all charms fly
At the touch of cold philosophy?
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine–
Unweave a rainbow...
- John Keats
