Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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161–180 (196)
tiny.ag/5lwhiz1c · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · submitted 1997
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death
tiny.ag/jjzf0pi4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, act IV, 1900, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/gw23usfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · ★★☆☆ Fair (761 ratings) · submitted 1999
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash, Versus, 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
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
tiny.ag/jwdsgedx · ★★☆☆ Fair (872 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
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/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.
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