Humanities › Literature Mark Twain & Death You Will Find These Mark Twain Death Quotes Eloquent Print Topical Press Agency / Stringer/ Hulton Archives/ Getty Images Literature Quotations Love Quotes Great Lines from Movies and Television Quotations For Holidays Best Sellers Classic Literature Plays & Drama Poetry Shakespeare Short Stories Children's Books By Simran Khurana Simran Khurana Education Expert M.B.A, Human Resource Development and Management, Narsee Monjee Institution of Management Studies B.S., University of Mumbai, Commerce, Accounting, and Finance Simran Khurana is the Editor-in-Chief for ReachIvy, and a teacher and freelance writer and editor, who uses quotations in her pedagogy. Learn about our Editorial Process Updated on November 11, 2017 Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910, but he had plenty to say on the subject while he was still alive. Death may be a morbid topic for many. However, Mark Twain chose to make light of the subject. He often joked about how dreadful the world would be if we were to continue to live forever. Quotes from Mark Twain, Master of Sarcasm By Simran Khurana Read More Mark Twain Quotes About Death You can develop a new perspective on death through Mark Twain's death quotes. Here, you will find Mark Twain embracing the concept of death with his famous wry sense of humor. 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. Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. Cite this Article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Khurana, Simran. "Mark Twain & Death." ThoughtCo, Feb. 16, 2021, thoughtco.com/mark-twain-and-death-2832663. Khurana, Simran. (2021, February 16). Mark Twain & Death. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/mark-twain-and-death-2832663 Khurana, Simran. "Mark Twain & Death." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/mark-twain-and-death-2832663 (accessed March 28, 2024). copy citation