Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
tiny.ag/zlo9d2aq · submitted 1997
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
tiny.ag/x1quz7jt · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
tiny.ag/qdviuayz · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/w9xyjy4p · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
tiny.ag/bmtd51wv · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/u4ywocdm · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
tiny.ag/lu1wfeec · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
tiny.ag/diamcwob · submitted 1997
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
tiny.ag/tvfsj7gx · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
tiny.ag/f70nm4cm · submitted 1999
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
tiny.ag/c4bqu3ci · submitted 1997
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/9fqb7lqw · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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