Mark Twain Quotes About Loss

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  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cute, God

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9262, Delphi Classics

• Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Kings, Children

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.52, Univ of California Press

• what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

  Mark Twain

  Loss, Winning, Appreciate

• It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Loss, Grieving

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

• In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

  Mark Twain

  Work, Mean, Loss

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

  Mark Twain

  Grief, Loss, Years

• The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Loss, Years

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.263, Xist Publishing

• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

• Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fall, Cat

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3504, Delphi Classics

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