Mark Twain Quotes

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.