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Life and Death

196 aphorisms  ·  11 comments

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tiny.ag/esckebld  ·  submitted 1997

Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/m3b4teek  ·  submitted 1997

Death is the final wake-up call.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/3dnw6xyp  ·  submitted 1997

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/o7wo0x8t  ·  submitted 1997

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/bmtd51wv  ·  submitted 1999

Live to win, dare to fail.

James Hetfield, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/w9xyjy4p  ·  submitted 1997

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/i5on8zyd  ·  submitted 1997

Catch-22 (paperback)

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/dzxgn8lw  ·  submitted 1997

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/lu1wfeec  ·  submitted 1997

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de la Bruyère, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/up1actjs  ·  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/mqbuthzj  ·  submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/diamcwob  ·  submitted 1997

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Charles Bukowski, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/tvfsj7gx  ·  submitted 1997

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death

tiny.ag/jwf0oyef  ·  submitted 1997

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ubucsjmk  ·  submitted 1997

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/r1riepsv  ·  submitted 1997

When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5  ·  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/1wskdikh  ·  submitted 1997

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb  ·  submitted 1997

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/buksmgyy  ·  submitted 1997

Forrest Gump (VHS (NTSC widescreen))

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, in Life and Death