Tag Archives: Mark Twain

“It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.”

- Mark Twain (on the death of his son)
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“All say how hard it is that we have to die — a strange complaint from the mouths of people who have had to live.”

- Mark Twain
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“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 inconvenience from it.”

-Mark Twain
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“Most people can’t bear to sit in a church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?”

-- Mark Twain
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“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 inconvenience from it.”

-Mark Twain
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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

- Mark Twain
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