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Dying Quotes by Mark Twain
- Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
- It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
- 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.
- The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
- I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is…
- 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 I can see,…
- Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
- Heaven goes by favor; If it went on merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
More Dying Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter