Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/k0lhuitd · submitted 1997
Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
tiny.ag/eip3h9je · submitted 1997
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
tiny.ag/c3ydou6f · submitted 1997
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
tiny.ag/8ei71095 · submitted 1997
To awake from death is to die in peace.
tiny.ag/zckhxjq9 · submitted 1997
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.
tiny.ag/uwjseqdv · submitted 1997
While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
tiny.ag/0ocbsd1l · submitted 1997
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
tiny.ag/wdjstbs9 · submitted 1997
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
tiny.ag/esckebld · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/2rj0neai · submitted 1997
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
tiny.ag/v1gy9mza · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · submitted 1997
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
tiny.ag/hfdoz0jf · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/4ru9egbz · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · 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 · submitted 1997
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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