Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/akq8lupr · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jlbzkcea · submitted 1997
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
tiny.ag/skc4wmie · submitted 1997
It doesn't take all kinds -- we just have all kinds.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · 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 · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · 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 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/hvae0ia3 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
tiny.ag/9kvgpvf0 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/2rj0neai · submitted 1997
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/l3yahg9k · submitted 1997
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
tiny.ag/esckebld · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/o7wo0x8t · submitted 1997
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
tiny.ag/3dnw6xyp · submitted 1997
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
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