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Death Quotes by Mark Twain
- Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for…
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste…
- Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves…
- The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!
- More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
- To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of…
- When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
- Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he…
- I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and…
- The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
- I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
- The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest…
- To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not…
- Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to…
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden