Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · ★★☆☆ Fair (815 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/w9xyjy4p · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
tiny.ag/bmtd51wv · ★★☆☆ Fair (776 ratings) · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
tiny.ag/pmqy9n03 · ★★☆☆ Fair (782 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
tiny.ag/j0xwttzq · ★★☆☆ Fair (331 ratings) · submitted 1997
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
tiny.ag/fmvyhi8i · ★★☆☆ Fair (148 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (447 ratings) · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/9xelzoym · ★★☆☆ Fair (175 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas.
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
tiny.ag/9fqb7lqw · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
tiny.ag/4ru9egbz · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/nd8c4s7a · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
tiny.ag/txsowiaz · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
tiny.ag/t0stg1ru · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · 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/omnauuky · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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.
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