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Life and Death
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# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
# · Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. — My life? Well now, that's another story...
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future — it will come soon enough.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
# · Not So Good (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
# · Not So Good (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying — it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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