Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

难道我们不都是在一件尚未发生的事情的阴影下度过我们生命的大部分时间吗?

-- Maurice Maeterlinck 莫里斯·梅特林克