Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
tiny.ag/jwdsgedx · ★★☆☆ Fair (872 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
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/9wkrhp7b · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/w9xyjy4p · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
tiny.ag/bmtd51wv · ★★☆☆ Fair (776 ratings) · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
tiny.ag/o7wo0x8t · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
tiny.ag/3dnw6xyp · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
tiny.ag/m3b4teek · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is the final wake-up call.
tiny.ag/dzxgn8lw · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/h3ssnixk · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
tiny.ag/cfxqwrve · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
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