Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/zlo9d2aq · submitted 1997
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/dmbscgzj · submitted 1997
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/hoegt9rs · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/fbobxg1w · submitted 1997
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
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/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/hfdoz0jf · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy 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/nwd35ukj · 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/fnthysbd · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
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/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/omnauuky · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
tiny.ag/t0stg1ru · submitted 1997
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
Albert Camus, The Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/e6lxgan0 · submitted 1997
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
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