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 then they would be honest so
much earlier.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American
Humorist, Writer
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.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American
Humorist, Writer
Let us
endeavor so to live that when we come to die even
the undertaker will be sorry.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American
Humorist, Writer
Those
who have lived a good life do not fear death, but
meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of
great suffering. But those who do not have a
peaceful conscience, dread death as though life
means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is
to live our life so that we will be prepared for
death when it comes.
-- Source Unknown
