Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/omnauuky · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/o805qiwx · submitted 1997
After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/qdumwgvj · submitted 1997
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · submitted 1997
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
tiny.ag/hfdoz0jf · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/i9e7qkvx · submitted 1997
Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.
tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
tiny.ag/maz6ijau · submitted 1997
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
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/fbobxg1w · submitted 1997
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
tiny.ag/hoegt9rs · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/dmbscgzj · submitted 1997
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · 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/8vqphwcy · 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 · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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