Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Smart Quotes

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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Death is the quiet haven of us all.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Death Quotes , Quiet Quotes

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]

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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

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I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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