Jon KrakauerI was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.
About This Quote
The line from the poem “When I Heard a Fly Buzz in my Ear” by James Whitcomb Riley is a metaphor for life. He was talking about being alive and the wonderful things that life had to offer, but he also wanted people to understand that death was inevitable. We all have to face death at some point in our lives, so it’s important to be able to enjoy what we have while we still have it. If we don’t appreciate the time we have, when will we appreciate it?
Source: Into The Wild
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