Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/qdumwgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · ★★☆☆ Fair (168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
tiny.ag/o805qiwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (141 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (334 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/hfdoz0jf · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/ymq69cki · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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/9kvgpvf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (957 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
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/e6lxgan0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/gw23usfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (697 ratings) · submitted 1999
I've never been this old in my entire life.
Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/r1riepsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · submitted 1997
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
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