Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/byptdb1g · submitted 1997
I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.
tiny.ag/h8gckidt · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/fbobxg1w · submitted 1997
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
tiny.ag/hoegt9rs · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/dmbscgzj · submitted 1997
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
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/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/rl8ocqtb · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
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/jjzf0pi4 · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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
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