Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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81–100 (196)
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (393 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · ★★☆☆ Fair (572 ratings) · 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.
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/dg8glncm · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/i7frfq3v · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.
tiny.ag/5lwhiz1c · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/e6lxgan0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
tiny.ag/hvae0ia3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (995 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
tiny.ag/9kvgpvf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (957 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/c3ydou6f · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
tiny.ag/8ei71095 · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
To awake from death is to die in peace.
tiny.ag/zckhxjq9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.
tiny.ag/uwjseqdv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
tiny.ag/0ocbsd1l · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
tiny.ag/wdjstbs9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
tiny.ag/esckebld · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
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