Death Quote by Mark Twain — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

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

“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”

“The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.”

“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.”

“How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.”

“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.”