--- title: "13 Dying Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "13 Dying quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Dying sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/mark-twain-22_dog-lover_heaven-goes-by-favor-if-it-went-on-merit_2730564.png" --- > [Heaven goes by favor; If it went on merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/heaven-goes-by-favor-if-it-went-on-merit-you-would-stay-out-and-your/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/mark-twain-22_dog-lover_heaven-goes-by-favor-if-it-went-on-merit_2730564.png) > [I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-was-born-with-halley-s-comet-and-i-expect-to-die-upon-its-return/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/mark-twain-22_astrology_i-was-born-with-halley-s-comet-and-i-exp_815969.png) > [“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/just-when-i-thought-i-was-learning-how-to-live-twas-then-i-realized-i/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/mark-twain-22_dying_just-when-i-thought-i-was-learning-how-t_1706410.png) > [Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/both-marriage-and-death-ought-to-be-welcome-the-one-promises/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/mark-twain-22_death_both-marriage-and-death-ought-to-be-welc_808215.png) > [Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/manifestly-dying-is-nothing-to-a-really-great-and-brave-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/mark-twain-22_brave_manifestly-dying-is-nothing-to-a-really_37491.png) > [The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-trouble-is-not-in-dying-for-a-friend-but-in-finding-a-friend/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/634/mark-twain-22_death_the-trouble-is-not-in-dying-for-a-friend_2631827.png) > [I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-have-seen-slower-people-than-i-am-and-more-deliberate-and-even/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/382/mark-twain-22_deliberate_i-have-seen-slower-people-than-i-am-and_2449604.png) > [Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/dying-man-couldn-t-make-up-his-mind-which-place-to-go-to-both-have/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2a/mark-twain-22_advantage_dying-man-couldn-t-make-up-his-mind-whic_3141246.png) > [I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-was-sorry-to-have-my-name-mentioned-as-one-of-the-great-authors/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/mark-twain-22_books_i-was-sorry-to-have-my-name-mentioned-as_2784590.png) > [I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-do-not-fear-death-i-had-been-dead-for-billions-and-billions-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/mark-twain-22_atheism_i-do-not-fear-death-i-had-been-dead-for_371859.png) > [Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-out-what-life-is-knows-how-deep/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/mark-twain-22_adam_whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-ou_1200262.png) > [It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-has-been-reported-that-i-was-seriously-ill-it-was-another-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/mark-twain-22_american-flag_it-has-been-reported-that-i-was-seriousl_2440853.png) > [The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-election-makes-me-think-of-a-story-of-a-man-who-was-dying-he-had/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d05/mark-twain-22_advantage_the-election-makes-me-think-of-a-story-o_71977.png) ## Other authors on Dying ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dying/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "13 Dying Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Heaven goes by favor; If it went on merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": 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When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. 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