Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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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/nzeglr2h · ★★☆☆ Fair (168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
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/esckebld · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/f70nm4cm · ★★☆☆ Fair (868 ratings) · submitted 1999
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
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/omnauuky · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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/tvfsj7gx · ★★☆☆ Fair (433 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death
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
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · ★★☆☆ Fair (894 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
tiny.ag/diamcwob · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
tiny.ag/qbcohtn1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
Dave Farber, Icon Programming Language Home Page, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/8kw5laiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (294 ratings) · submitted 1997
You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.
tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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