Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/fmvyhi8i · submitted 1997
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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/wva2bjoz · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dtxsg5kf · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/zlo9d2aq · submitted 1997
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/9kvgpvf0 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
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/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/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/e6lxgan0 · submitted 1997
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
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