Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/wbs0co8v · submitted 1997
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
tiny.ag/qdumwgvj · submitted 1997
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
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/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/omnauuky · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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/hfdoz0jf · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/satycnrw · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
tiny.ag/hl6bwuua · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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/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
tiny.ag/znmoyas0 · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/9exdprka · submitted 1997
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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