Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
tiny.ag/ymq69cki · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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/maz6ijau · submitted 1997
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/w9xyjy4p · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
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/sdvpkq9f · submitted 1997
Life is made up of marble and mud.
tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · submitted 1997
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/yio6tuyz · submitted 1997
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/rnxbf2ho · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
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/5mrm7cdg · submitted 1997
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
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/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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/txsowiaz · submitted 1997
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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