Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/hoegt9rs · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · 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 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/hvae0ia3 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · 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/fdrthlxv · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/e6lxgan0 · submitted 1997
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/5lwhiz1c · submitted 1997
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
tiny.ag/dg8glncm · submitted 1997
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/i7frfq3v · submitted 1997
Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.
tiny.ag/m3b4teek · submitted 1997
Death is the final wake-up call.
tiny.ag/dzxgn8lw · submitted 1997
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
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