Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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121–140 (196)
tiny.ag/b94hkcka · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
tiny.ag/74zlcnif · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't die until you're dead.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/h8gckidt · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
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.
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
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/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/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/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.
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