Mark Twain Quotes

Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning.

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

Good night, and good luck.

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

I wish my national team all the best.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Wherever your travels may take you, I hope it's profitable.

"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

I just want to say, I'm not interest in politics. Politics is my husband, and since he's not interested in politics anymore, then I'm not interested in politics. I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don't care, do you understand?

So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

I wish you way more than luck.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.