Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/qdviuayz · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/jwdsgedx · ★★☆☆ Fair (872 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/x1quz7jt · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
tiny.ag/k6fhbfxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/ev3fc9xo · ★★☆☆ Fair (935 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/dkcw9sko · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
tiny.ag/np9hfjzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
tiny.ag/vepzdy0d · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
tiny.ag/goycrlxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
tiny.ag/9wkrhp7b · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
tiny.ag/cqzk8eet · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · 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/hsueg1lg · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · 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
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