Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/ymq69cki · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/lewynsak · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
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/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/hoegt9rs · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · 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/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · 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.
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