treselegant: “No young man really believes he shall ever die. There is a feeling of eternity in youth which makes amends for everything. Death, old age, are words without meaning — a dream, a fiction. To be young is to be as one of the immortals.” Bow Bells 1866, on Youth and Death. 

treselegant:

“No young man really believes he shall ever die. There is a feeling of eternity in youth which makes amends for everything. Death, old age, are words without meaning — a dream, a fiction. To be young is to be as one of the immortals.”

Bow Bells 1866, on Youth and Death.