Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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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/w9xyjy4p · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
tiny.ag/9exdprka · submitted 1997
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/u4ywocdm · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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/4ru9egbz · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/nd8c4s7a · submitted 1997
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
tiny.ag/txsowiaz · submitted 1997
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
tiny.ag/ucas5skv · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
tiny.ag/ktc0xjw3 · submitted 1997
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/9fqb7lqw · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · 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.
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