Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/tvfsj7gx · ★★☆☆ Fair (433 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/diamcwob · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
tiny.ag/ymq69cki · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
tiny.ag/8vqphwcy · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (731 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · 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/pmyrloxq · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/byptdb1g · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.
tiny.ag/h8gckidt · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · ★★☆☆ Fair (894 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
tiny.ag/lu1wfeec · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · ★★☆☆ Fair (444 ratings) · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
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/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/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/9kvgpvf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (957 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/i7frfq3v · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.
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