Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/ngzfgtnp · submitted 1997
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
tiny.ag/cqzk8eet · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
tiny.ag/goycrlxn · submitted 1997
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
tiny.ag/9wkrhp7b · submitted 1997
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · 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 · 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/hvae0ia3 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
tiny.ag/9kvgpvf0 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fbobxg1w · submitted 1997
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
tiny.ag/hfdoz0jf · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/t0stg1ru · 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/omnauuky · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/o805qiwx · 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 · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
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