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

“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

“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

“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

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

- Mark Twain

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.”

“All say how hard it is that we have to die — a strange complaint from the mouths of people who have had to live.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

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.”

“All say how hard it is that we have to die — a strange complaint from the mouths of people who have had to live.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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