Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/satycnrw · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
tiny.ag/tuvabnig · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/znmoyas0 · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
tiny.ag/k0lhuitd · submitted 1997
Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
tiny.ag/eip3h9je · submitted 1997
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
tiny.ag/hl6bwuua · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
tiny.ag/o7wo0x8t · submitted 1997
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
tiny.ag/3dnw6xyp · submitted 1997
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
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.
tiny.ag/h3ssnixk · submitted 1997
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
tiny.ag/cfxqwrve · submitted 1997
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
tiny.ag/cqhmzryv · submitted 1997
Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · submitted 1997
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
tiny.ag/v1gy9mza · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
tiny.ag/l3yahg9k · submitted 1997
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
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