“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
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Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Journey's End: The Burning Bush (1911)
Context: "Thou art come back to me, Thou art come back to me! O Thou, whom I had lost!... Why didst Thou abandon me?"
"To fulfil My task, that thou didst abandon."
"What task?"
"My fight."
"What need hast Thou to fight? Art Thou not master of all?"
"I am not the master."
"Art Thou not All that Is?"
"I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me."

Dr. Susan Blackmore http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Chapters/Kurtz.htm


Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 4