thread of life
Mortal existence's duration
The thread of life is the span of a person's existence, imagined as a strand that can be cut short.
The phrase comes from Greek mythology, where three Fates spun, measured, and severed each mortal's thread.
It appears in contexts about mortality and fate: Her thread of life was cut too soon.
To hang by a thread is to be in precarious danger.
- lifelineEssential connection to safety
- three sistersIndigenous companion planting method
- fatePredetermined course of events
- mortalityState of eventual death
- spoolCylinder for winding material
destiny · Norns · spun out · yarn · severed · legacy · Clotho · impermanence · karma · scissors · cosmic order · weaving · spindle · intertwine · mortal coil · cut short · loom · unraveling
thread of lifeimmortality
Exemption from death
eternal life · everlasting life · deathlessness · timelessness · ambrosia
thread of lifeindestructibility
Quality of being unbreakable
eternity · invulnerability · permanence · imperishability · unbreakable bond
thread, life, threads, threaded, threading, threadlike, lively, alive, lifelong