“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Variant: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Let us live – we must die.”
Vivamus, moriendum est.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (-54–39 BC) Roman scholar
Book II, Chapter VI; translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 349
Some editions of Seneca prefer the reading Bibamus, moriendum est (Let us drink – we must die).
Controversiae
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
If 6 Was 9
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Source: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them.”
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
Context: Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
“So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”
Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 19
“If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.”
Jim Jones (1931–1978) founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple
" Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 1978)
