Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/x1quz7jt · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
tiny.ag/qdviuayz · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ojnfi4om · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (393 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · ★★☆☆ Fair (572 ratings) · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/8vqphwcy · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Mankind terminated, man what a break.
Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ymq69cki · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
tiny.ag/i9e7qkvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.
tiny.ag/9exdprka · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/pmyrloxq · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1013 ratings) · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/maz6ijau · ★★☆☆ Fair (731 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/byptdb1g · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.
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