Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/blmzpnir · 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/oqpn2fbc · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/dkcw9sko · submitted 1997
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
tiny.ag/k6fhbfxn · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/v1gy9mza · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
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/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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/2rj0neai · submitted 1997
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · 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 · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · 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.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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
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