Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/9fqb7lqw · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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/buksmgyy · submitted 1997
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/mdhzlnil · submitted 1997
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
tiny.ag/1wskdikh · submitted 1997
Plato was a bore.
tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5 · submitted 1999
I've never been this old in my entire life.
Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · submitted 1997
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/r1riepsv · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gw23usfp · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/jjzf0pi4 · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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