Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · submitted 1997
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.
tiny.ag/satycnrw · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/tuvabnig · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/znmoyas0 · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
tiny.ag/hl6bwuua · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
tiny.ag/zckhxjq9 · submitted 1997
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.
tiny.ag/8ei71095 · submitted 1997
To awake from death is to die in peace.
tiny.ag/uwjseqdv · submitted 1997
While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
tiny.ag/esckebld · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/0ocbsd1l · submitted 1997
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
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