Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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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/xiwdsjg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
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/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/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/hfdoz0jf · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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.
tiny.ag/o805qiwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (141 ratings) · submitted 1997
After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
tiny.ag/wbs0co8v · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · ★★☆☆ Fair (168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/qdumwgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
tiny.ag/lu1wfeec · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · ★★☆☆ Fair (444 ratings) · 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
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