Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/uys04zyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.
tiny.ag/lewynsak · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/f70nm4cm · ★★☆☆ Fair (868 ratings) · submitted 1999
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1013 ratings) · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/9exdprka · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/esckebld · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/i9e7qkvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.
tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
tiny.ag/omnauuky · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
tiny.ag/t0stg1ru · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · ★★☆☆ Fair (334 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · ★★☆☆ Fair (168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
tiny.ag/qdumwgvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/o805qiwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (141 ratings) · submitted 1997
After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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