All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Death”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
“The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
“No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.”
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.”
“It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”
“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.”
“Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.”
“How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.”
“It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.”
“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, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.”
“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.”

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