"I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Death Tags: attend, funeral More From Mark Twain "Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever." "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain." "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." More In Death "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."― Nelson Mandela "Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important."― Bill Shankly "She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she’s also a bit of a fatale. She’s the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater."― Helena Bonham Carter