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Life and Death
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# · Not So Good (16 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
The Stranger (paperback)# · Not So Good (46 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Not So Good (43 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998) ·
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
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
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
# · Not So Good (27 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson (updated 1998)
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Mankind terminated, man what a break.
Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Life and Death
# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too may precautions.
# · Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
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