The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He is in heaven now, and happy; or if not there, he bides in hell and is content; for in that place… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
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