Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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81–100 (196)
tiny.ag/dtxsg5kf · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/ojnfi4om · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (393 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · ★★☆☆ Fair (572 ratings) · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fbobxg1w · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
tiny.ag/hoegt9rs · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/dmbscgzj · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · ★★☆☆ Fair (397 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/1wskdikh · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
Plato was a bore.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r1riepsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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
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