Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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161–180 (196)
tiny.ag/hvae0ia3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (995 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (957 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · 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/c3ydou6f · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
tiny.ag/8ei71095 · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
To awake from death is to die in peace.
tiny.ag/zckhxjq9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.
tiny.ag/uwjseqdv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
tiny.ag/0ocbsd1l · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
tiny.ag/wdjstbs9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
tiny.ag/esckebld · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · submitted 1997
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death
tiny.ag/jjzf0pi4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · 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/gw23usfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · ★★☆☆ Fair (761 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/1wskdikh · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
Plato was a bore.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r1riepsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
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