A brass gear wrapped in a coiled copper-colored cord with a knot at one end on a grey-blue background.

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Chuck Noland

We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of losing our track on time.

— Cast Away  ·  2000

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Time is treated as something life depends on, so losing track of it is framed as a kind of moral failing, a sin. The speaker stresses that we're shaped and ended by time, so keeping hold of it matters deeply.

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