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Category: Life and Death

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1. "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

Czeslaw Milosz, "Roadside Dog"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

2. "Life is the risk we cannot refuse."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

3. "Life is lived forwards and understood backwards."

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Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

4. "Life's not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, loudly proclaiming -WOW- What a ride!"

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5. "Fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying."

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Other categories: Bravery and Fear

6. "God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world."

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Other categories: God and Religion

7. "... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Human

8. "In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."

Federico García Lorca

9. "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Other categories: Work and Laziness

10. "Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

11. "Life is a balancing of differences."

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12. "Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

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Other categories: Art and Culture

13. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Other categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals

14. "Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, "Modes and Morals"

Other categories: Law and Crime

15. "I don't want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally."

Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Other categories: Love

16. "The moment you come into this world you begin to go out of it; your first breath is linked with your last."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, "Romans: The Final Perseverance Of The Saints"

17. "I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."

John Mortimer

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

18. "Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Other categories: Time and Passing

19. "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Anita Brookner

Other categories: Justice -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

20. "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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21. "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Other categories: Education

22. "Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

23. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Pain and Tears

24. "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."

Maya Angelou

Other categories: Various

25. "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Isaac Asimov

26. "Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Vaclav Havel, "Disturbing the Peace"

27. "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

Other categories: Egoism -:- Memory

28. "Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now."

Dwight L. Moody

29. "The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy."

Jean de La Bruyere, "Les Caracteres"

Other categories: Happiness

30. "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."

Albert Schweitzer

Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Good and Evil

31. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

Other categories: History and Nations -:- Various

32. "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Other categories: Human

33. "After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

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Other categories: Question and Problem

34. "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

35. "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Youth and Age

36. "Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin

Other categories: Time and Passing

37. "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

Other categories: Success and Fame

38. "Live, let live, and help live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg, "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

40. "The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Oscar Wilde

41. "In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

German proverb

42. "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Other categories: Art and Culture

43. "The best jokes are those that life plays on us."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Wit and Humor

44. "Striving for better life we waste the one we already have."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Happiness

45. "Stop following someone else's path, find your own."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Human -:- Various

46. "Keep changing your life into joke, the world is not worth treating seriously."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Wit and Humor

47. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

48. "Life must be something more than dilettante speculation."

Anna Julia Cooper, "A Voice from the South"

49. "Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

Socrates

Other categories: Good and Evil

50. "Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Time and Passing -:- Woman and Man

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