Grief Quotes by Mark Twain

16 Grief quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s storytelling often carries a wry grin, and his thoughts on grief are no different—direct, occasionally humorous, and deeply human. These 16 quotes give a taste of how he faced sorrow with a steady, colloquial voice.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their…

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his…

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of…

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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to…

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it…

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a…

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what…

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“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great…

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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our…

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What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back…

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“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to…

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little…

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I…

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“A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble…

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

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“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

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You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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