Quotes by Twain, Mark

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heave >>

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. >>

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you wan >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

Alas, I am dying beyond my means. >>

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of t >>

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of >>

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Twain, Mark