Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/ktc0xjw3 · submitted 1997
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
tiny.ag/ucas5skv · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5 · 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/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/r1riepsv · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/1wskdikh · submitted 1997
Plato was a bore.
tiny.ag/nd8c4s7a · submitted 1997
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · 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/gw23usfp · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · 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/jjzf0pi4 · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
tiny.ag/txsowiaz · submitted 1997
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · 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/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/ojnfi4om · submitted 1997
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
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